First United Methodist Church of Salisbury is welcoming a new senior pastor as his first Sunday preaching will be July 13 during the 10 a.m. worship service. This will be the fourth appointment in the ...

The services will feature talks, inclusive music, and opportunities for community reflection. All are welcome, regardless of ...

American Methodism was formally established in 1784, just after the Revolutionary War. The new denomination grew rapidly along with the new nation in numbers, geography, and prestige.

“Methodism really took off in the U.S. more than it did in Britain,” said Matthew Wilson, an associate professor of political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

But the era of big-tent Methodism may now be ending, as conservative congregations exit. Mr. Cotton’s lifelong congregation, now known as Dardanelle Methodist Church, left the denomination this ...

Methodism also has a long track record of advocacy for the rights of women, including the right to ordination, which some of those leaving the denomination oppose.

Methodism is in theological crisis, and if she does not return to the faith of Paul and Luther and Wesley and Clarke she shall cease to be a vital influence. The Organizational Predicament.

New denomination forms amid splintering: What it means for the future of Methodism The more conservative Global Methodist Church holds inaugural legislative assembly following exodus of thousands ...

Methodism emerged “streamlined for modernity,” though ironically this led to a renewed concern with hierarchy and the submerging of women’s public roles.

Methodism, he says, is a “strange combination of discipline and freedom—and it is the discipline that makes the freedom possible.” Wesley’s instinct for order was wise, ...