This is one of a series of stories related to the 250th anniversary of the arrival of Methodist leader Francis Asbury in the United States. (RNS) — Two and a half centuries ago, Francis Asbury arrived ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For many, the schism that has wracked the United Methodist Church seemed inevitable, though it was an outcome few wanted. The ...

The origin of Scranton’s first Methodist Church reaches back to the Battle of Wyoming in the late 1700s and a Kingston blacksmith who credited God with his survival. A 1968 Scranton Times article ...

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 ...

Methodist churches have a history of planting new churches. In 1889, two brothers who were members of Duluth's downtown First Episcopal Methodist Church took the a step to plant a Methodist church in ...

During the Mississippi United Methodist Conference recently held in Tupelo, 189 churches statewide disaffiliated from the UMC members because of what local ministers described as differing religious ...