United Methodism: How Conservatives Won the Debate, but Lost the Denomination

by Jack Jackson

United Methodism is no longer a misnomer because the progressives have been given what they wanted. Continue Reading »

7 May 2024

The Future of United Methodism

by Dale M. Coulter

With the United Methodist Church dividing over same-sex marriage, Methodists must search to ground their tradition in a return to Wesleyan catholicity. Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2022

Methodism Dividing

by Kevin Watson

In the summer of 2016, ­Karen Oliveto, a “self-avowed practicing homosexual,” was elected and consecrated a bishop and assigned to the Mountain Sky Area of the Western Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. This is but one instance of the willful disregard for official church discipline . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2020

John Wesley and Religious Liberty

by Mark Tooley

Last year I wrote for First Things on John Wesley's reaction to anti-Methodist riots in the mid-1700s as it relates to contemporary assaults on religious liberty. Recently a letter by John Wesley revealing his views about law enforcement and religious freedom was tweeted by its owner, the Wesley Hobart Museum of the Uniting Church in Tasmania, Australia. The letter, 
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26 Mar 2015

John Wesley and Religious Freedom

by Mark Tooley

Lumping together the recently attempted Arizona religious freedom law with new criminal laws against homosexuality in Nigeria and Uganda, the United Methodist Church’s Capitol Hill lobby lamented that “legislation that denies the human rights of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and . . . . Continue Reading »

6 Mar 2014