Circuit riders took Methodism south almost immediately, then west, founding what is now First United Methodist Church at Chicago Temple in 1831, six years before the city of Chicago was incorporated.

American Methodism was formally established in 1784, just after the Revolutionary War. The new denomination grew rapidly along with the new nation in numbers, geography, and prestige.

Methodism emerged “streamlined for modernity,” though ironically this led to a renewed concern with hierarchy and the submerging of women’s public roles.

"This approaching year, 1866, marks its hundredth anniversary -- the 'Centenary of Methodism.' It was proposed by the last General Conference hold in Philadelphia in 1864, ...

On Aug. 7, United Methodism’s second- and seventh-largest churches by attendance, both in the Houston area, voted to quit the denomination.

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 ...

Burt J. (for nothing) Denman, 59, nervous, energetic vice president & general manager of United Light & Power Co., has an office in Chicago's Bankers Building, lives in suburban ...

New denomination forms amid splintering: What it means for the future of Methodism The more conservative Global Methodist Church holds inaugural legislative assembly following exodus of thousands ...

F or 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 ...