If you don’t know, you should know, that John Wesley abhorred the idea of separating from the Church of England in principle, even after acknowledging that an exception had to be made in the case of the Methodist movement in America following England’s defeat in the American Revolution.  The rapidly expanding membership of the Methodist …

In the course of researching the development of Methodist church government, I’ve come across a wealth of material, much of it written by Wesley himself, that seems germane to our struggle to remain united. I’ll post excerpts of these from time to time, hoping to reflect my growing understanding that our Wesleyan heritage already contains …