She may only be 28 years old, but when the Rev. Katie O’Hern stepped through the doors of John Wesley United Methodist Church on her first day of work on July 1, it was in a historic way. She is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In 1766 Philip Embury and a handful of John Wesley’s disciples organized the first New World preaching societies of Methodism, which then was merely a dissident Anglican sect. Last week more than ...

John Wesley United Methodist Church is hosting its annual Caring and Sharing Program on Dec. 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. For 35 years this project has provided hot meals, coats gloves, hats and ...

He was a small man, only five-feet-three, weighing only 128 pounds, yet he influenced the world. John Wesley wore his hair long, covering his shoulders, shunning a wig, which was the custom of ...

Wesley and Methodist Studies publishes peer-reviewed articles that examine the life and work of John and Charles Wesley, their contemporaries (proponents or opponents) in the 18th century Evangelical ...

THERE have been many lives of Wesley and histories of the rise of Methodism written already, but there is still another before us by Julia Wedgwood, an Englishwoman, who states in her Preface that her ...

The John Wesley Methodist Chapel and Cemetery in northern St. Mary’s County is likely to be nominated next year as an endangered site to draw attention to the need to preserve it.Located off Aviation ...

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