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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I, the first chartered Methodist church in the United States, and the death of Amanda Smith.

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 ...