A Church’s Broken Heart: A Church’s Broken Heart
Understanding but Not Excusing Our Racial Divides How might United Methodism confront its continuing racial dilemmas and grasp how and why Methodism came to be so divided-organizationally, geo-politically, structurally, attitudinally-precisely where it proved most successful,...
Développement et Croissance du Methodisme Uni en RD Congo
Written in French, this book by M. Flugence Nyengele tells the story of United Methodism in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Le méthodisme uni au Congo a un héritage riche dans l’engagement social motivé par...
E. Stanley Jones and Sharing the Good News in a Pluralistic Society
Reclaim the Third Way of Evangelism Produced in cooperation with The Foundation for Evangelism, this book offers a Wesleyan evangelism through the lens and in the spirit of E. Stanley Jones. As Christians seek ways...
Encoding Methodism: Telling and Retelling Narratives of Wesleyan Origins
We shape and are shaped by the stories we tell about ourselves. Methodists love to tell the story and Methodist churches have consistently told and re-told the narrative of their eighteenth-century founding by John (and...
Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality
The United Methodist impasse over human sexuality has its roots in two dichotomous ideologies of history and theology. This book maps how American Methodists have responded to sexual change since World War II. It argues...
Extension Ministers: Mr. Wesley’s True Heirs
Eminent United Methodist historian Russell Richey skillfully analyzes the evolving marginalization of "extension ministers"—United Methodist clergypersons serving the denomination in ministry settings beyond the local parish. Drawing on denominational history, theological argument, and practical experience,...
For Each and All: The Moral Witness of Asa Mahan
Even in post-modernity, there is such a thing as right and wrong The Civil War was about deciding who counted as one of us, and what rights, privileges, and duties we would afford each other....
Formation for Ministry in American Methodism
This study originated as a plenary address at THE UMC AFTER TAMPA: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? A United Methodist Faculty Consultation for the 2012-16 Quadrennium, an event sponsored and hosted by Candler School...
Global United Methodism Telling the Stories, Living into the Realities
United Methodist Scholars Writing from Their Global Contexts The United Methodist Church continues to live into its global nature, and this book, written by scholars from their own contexts, helps develop deeper global sensibilities as...
Henry Foxall: Methodist, Industrialist, American
A tale of one man’s impact on both a church and state in a country that enshrines their separation. Henry Foxall set the tone for subsequent American Methodists: adapters, entrepreneurs, and leaders. He was the...