Methodism took root in England at Oxford University in 1729. Forty-four years later, the sect had reached the “Holston Country,” the rugged American frontier region where Indians posed resistance. One ...

In 1868 General U.S. Grant remarked that the United States possessed three great parties: “The Republican, the Democratic, and the Methodist Church.” More recently my colleague Stanley Hauerwas ...

When a publishing company in the cradle of Methodism needed an editor to compile a new book on Methodist studies, it chose a historian with roots in one of the tradition's American cradles. The Rev.

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https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.12.2.0131 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/weslmethstud.12.2.0131 Copy URL During the opening decade of the nineteenth ...

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Methodism enjoyed widespread growth in America in the middle to late 1700s and 1800s because of its "circuit riders." Circuit riders, also called "saddlebag preachers," were a different kind of clergy ...

One of the most famed religious conversions since that of St. Paul, and probably the best-documented in modern times, was that of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. To a recent Roman Catholic student ...

A recent edition of a leading Methodist journal reports: “Methodist membership is failing even to keep up with the population growth of the United States, and lags far behind the membership gain of ...