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 0

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 0

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 0