“Robert Strawbridge” returned yesterday to the farm country in western Carroll County where he planted the Methodist religion in America two centuries ago. He came in the person of Ken Steward, a ...

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 ...

That's the name of an exhibit which opens soon at Bridwell Library, part of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Methodism in the American South, Foundation through ...

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The Rev. Bonnie McCubbin’s first task in her new job as archivist for the local branch of a major denomination was far from soul-stirring. It was to sort through thousands of files assigned to her ...

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 ...

For 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 principles of ...