Plans to convert the Sunday School building of Haverfordwest’s former Wesleyan Chapel, once the site of a regular place for ...

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.

Plans to convert the Sunday School building of Haverfordwest’s former Wesleyan Chapel, once the site of a regular place for preaching by the founding father of Methodism, to six flats have been ...

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

"This approaching year, 1866, marks its hundredth anniversary -- the 'Centenary of Methodism.' It was proposed by the last General Conference hold in Philadelphia in 1864, ...

In its intrinsic doctrine, it is about as threatening to you and me as the doctrine of al-Wahhab’s close contemporary, the British theologian John Wesley (1703-91), founder of Methodism, also a ...

Evangelicals in American United Methodism were for decades often scorned by church elites. With Africa’s rise, long predominant American liberals have now become the minority.

In a final vote, delegates at United Methodism’s governing General Conference rejected the One Church Plan heavily pushed by most USA bishops to overturn the church’s definition of marriage as ...

Africa is becoming a hotbed of fervent Methodism In Africa, a hotbed of fervent MethodismIvory Coast leads surge in group outside the U.S.; at home, numbers are dwindling By RACHEL ZOLL ...

United Methodism cannot seem to move beyond the homosexuality debate. As the once-every-four-year General Conference of the United Methodist Church wrapped up its business, few church leaders ...

F or the last 15 years there has been steadily developing in American Methodism a “High Church” movement. This has been connected with an earlier development in English Methodism, the ...