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.

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 ...

"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, ...

Evangelicals in American United Methodism were for decades often scorned by church elites. With Africa’s rise, long predominant American liberals have now become the minority.

John Wesley gave Asbury authority to conduct church affairs in America as he saw suitable. Under Asbury’s sway, Methodism expanded. Asbury had reached North Carolina by 1788 and helped organize the ...

United Methodism cannot seem to move beyond the homosexuality debate. As the once-every-four-year General Conference of the United Methodist Church wrapped up its business, few church leaders ...

In a final vote, delegates at United Methodism’s governing General Conference rejected the One Church Plan heavily pushed by most USA bishops to overturn the church’s definition of marriage as ...

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