A recent Mississippi Library Association conference exhibit in Vicksburg features a photo of descendants of John G. Jones who wrote an early history of Methodism in Mississippi. They are Henry Scott ...

THE history of a religious denomination is in itself a matter of no small importance. Taken in connection with other ecclesiastical bodies as a portion of the data in estimating the national ...

From about 1784 to 1890, Methodism in what is now the southeastern United States was fostered by "circuit riders." The term was an American coinage and the circuit rider traveled by horseback from ...

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 ...

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 ...

A profile of the Methodist Church, the fourth largest Christian Church in England: its history and founder John Wesley and its values. The Methodist Church is the fourth largest Christian Church in ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Journal of Religion is one of the publications by which the Divinity School of The University of Chicago seeks to ...

A MUSEUM has begun its ambitious project to tell the global story of Methodism through the medium of needlework. The Weardale Museum, a small folk museum in Ireshopeburn, was recently able to purchase ...

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 ...

A new museum has opened dedicated to the history of Methodism in Norfolk. The East Anglia Methodist Heritage Centre at Wighton, between Wells and Walsingham, tells the story of the church and its ...

Anthony Elia/Special contributor This column is part of our ongoing Opinion commentary on faith, called Living Our Faith. Get weekly roundups of the project in your email inbox by signing up for the ...