Read the history of the life of John Wesley and his impact on the world. John Wesley was born on the 17th of June 1703 (The 28th of June in the modern calendar). The 15th of 19 children born to Samuel ...

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He was a small man, only five-feet-three, weighing only 128 pounds, yet he influenced the world. John Wesley wore his hair long, covering his shoulders, shunning a wig, which was the custom of ...

Preaching is generally associated with pulpits. A formal stand for your notes, and a platform from which you generally have a bit of a view, not to mention an advantage, over your audience. My family ...

GBy Paul L. Whalen reat Britain is one of the few European nations that has avoided a civil war in the past 200 years. Some scholars’ credit this fact to the “Great Awakening” and the spiritual ...

John Wesley, the founder of what is today’s United Methodist Church, traveled about England and did a lot of preaching outdoors. He came to America in the 1730s to preach the Gospel of Jesus and he ...

Of all John Wesley’s memorable lines, my favorite is from his April 2, 1739 journal entry, about having preached for the first time outside the confines of the pulpit: “At four in the afternoon I ...

The association between Methodism and English Romanticism, of course, has a long history. Most of the early Romantics had some connection to the Methodists—if only an antagonistic one. Leigh Hunt ...