Gender, emotion, medicine, electricity, ecology, literacy, rhetoric—these terms are a little thin in the indices of the standard books on John Wesley and the history of Methodism. More typical would ...

Keith Boyette prepares for retirement as the denomination gathers formally for the first time. You just don’t expect the pastor to be a lawyer. Rusty Dennen didn’t know a lot about church. He didn’t ...

The present-day United Methodist Church, a 1968 merger of the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches, had its beginnings firmly in the 18th century. Last year, when all of Virginia was re ...

As a former United Methodist pastor, I can say with no hesitation whatsoever I love me some John Wesley (founder of the United Methodist Church for those not in the know). I’ve read all the sermons, ...