3.6 North America

Bibliographies

Bucke, Emory S., ed. History of American Methodism. 3 vols. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1964. See bibliographies at the end of each volume.

Daniel, William Harrison. Historical Atlas of the Methodist Movement. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009.

Duke University. Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition. Online Resources https://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives/wesleyan-methodist/cswt

Gray, C. Jarrett, Jr., comp. The Racial and Ethnic Presence in American Methodism: A Bibliography. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, UMC, 1991.

Woodruff Tait, Jennifer, and Christopher J. Anderson, eds. Historical Dictionary of Methodism, Fourth Edition. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.

Surveys

Abraham, William J. Methodism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Airhart, Phyllis D. A Church with the Soul of a Nation: Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014.

_____. Serving the Present Age: Revivalism, Progressivism and the Methodist Tradition in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1992.

Barbeau, Jeffrey W. The Spirit of Methodism: From the Wesleys to a Global Communion. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2019.

Bucke, Emory S., ed. History of American Methodism. 3 vols. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1964.

Grant, John Webster, and Charles H. H. Scobie. The Contribution of Methodism to Atlantic Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992.

Hatch, Nathan O., and John H. Wigger, eds. Methodism and the Shaping of American Culture. Nashville: Kingswood, 2001.

Hempton, David. Methodism: Empire of the Spirit. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

Kinghorn, Kenneth C. The Heritage of American Methodism. 2nd Edition. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2009.

Kirby, James E., Russell E. Richey, and Kenneth E. Rowe. The Methodists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Kirby, James E., Russell E. Richey, and Kenneth E. Rowe. The Methodists, Student Edition. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Lawrence, William B., Dennis M. Campbell, and Russell E. Richey. The People(s) called Methodist: Forms and Reforms of their Life. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997. (United Methodism and American Culture series)

McLaren, Scott. Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.

McEllhenney, John G., ed. United Methodism in America: A Compact History. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992.

Marshall, David. Secularizing the Faith: Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief, 1850-1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.

Matthews, Rex D. Timetables of History: For Students of Methodism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.

Norwood, Frederick A. The Story of American Methodism: A History of the United Methodists and Their Relations. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1974.

______, ed. Sourcebook of American Methodism. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1996. Reprint of the 1983 edition.

Payne, William P. American Methodism: Past and Future Growth. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2013.

Richey, Russell E. The Methodist Conference in America: A History. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1996.

Richey, Russell E., Dennis M. Campbell, and William B. Lawrence, eds. Connectionalism: Ecclesiology, Mission and Identity. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997. (United Methodism and American Culture series)

–––––, Kenneth E. Rowe, and Jean Miller Schmidt. The Methodist Experience in America: A Compact History. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2012.

–––––, Kenneth E. Rowe, and Jean Miller Schmidt. The Methodist Experience in America. Vol. I. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2010.

–––––, Kenneth E. Rowe, and Jean Miller Schmidt, eds. The Methodist Experience in America: A Sourcebook. Vol. II. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000.

–––––, Kenneth E. Rowe, and Jean Miller Schmidt, eds. Perspectives on American Methodism: Interpretive Essays. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1993.

–––––, and Kenneth E. Rowe, eds. Rethinking Methodist History. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1985.

Rohrer, S. Scott. Wandering Souls: Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Semple, Neil. The Lord’s Dominion: The History of Canadian Methodism. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996.

Shepherd, Victor A. Mercy Immense and Free: Essays on Wesley and the Wesleyan Tradition. Toronto: Clements Academic, 2010.

Taves, Ann. Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Timelines of United Methodist History, 1703-1996. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church, 1996.

Velazco, José Luis, and Virgilio Vazquez-Garza. Mexico, Labyrinth of Faith. New York, NY: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2002.

Vickers, Jason E., and Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait, Editors. The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Watson, Kevin M. Doctrine, Spirit & Discipline: A History of the Wesleyan Tradition in the United States. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2024.

Wigger, John H. Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

18th Century Studies

Anderson, Misty G. Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief & the Borders of Self. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

Andrews, Dee. The Methodists and Revolutionary America, 1760-1800: The Shaping of an Evangelical Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Clark, Elmer T., J. Manning Potts, and Jacob S. Payton, eds. The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury. London: Epworth Press; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1958.

Hammond, Geordan. John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Hollett, Calvin. Shouting, Embracing, and Dancing with Ecstasy: The Growth of Methodism in Newfoundland, 1774-1874. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.

Lawrence, Anna. One Family under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Lee, Jesse. A Short History of the Methodists. Rutland, VT: Academy Books, 1974. Reprint of the first published history of Methodism in America, 1810.

Lyerly, Cynthia Lynn. Methodism and the Southern Mind, 1770-1810. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Mack, Phyllis. Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Noll, Mark. The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2003.

Richey, Russell E. Early American Methodism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Rogal, Samuel J. The Wesleys in North America: The Mission That Failed (February 1736 – December 1737).  Lewiston, New York : Edwin Mellen Press, 2016.

Salter, Darius. America’s Bishop: The Life of Francis Asbury. Nappanee, IN: Evangel Publishing House, 2003.

Schell, Edwin, comp. “Methodist Traveling Preachers in America, 1773-1799.” Methodist History 38 (July 2000): 307-351.

Taves, Ann. Fits, Trances, & Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Thomas, John. The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735-1738: So Glorious an Undertaking. Bethlehem, PA and Lanham, MD: Lehigh University Press and Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.

Tolar Burton, Vicki. Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley’s Methodism: Reading, Writing, and Speaking to Believe. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008.

Vickers, John A., ed. The Letters of Dr. Thomas Coke. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2013.

_____, ed. The Journals of Dr. Thomas Coke. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2005.

Williams, Jeffrey. Religion and Violence in Early American Methodism: Taking the Kingdom by Force. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010.

Williams, William H. “The Attraction of Methodism: The Delmarva Peninsula as a Case Study, 1769-1820,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 2, 31-45.

–––––. The Garden of American Methodism: The Delmarva Peninsula, 1769-1820. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1984.

Wolffe, John. The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2007.

19th Century Studies

Carney, Charity R. Ministers and Masters: Methodism, Manhood, and Honor in the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.

Carwardine, Richard J. Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Originally published in 1993.

–––––. Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America, 1790-1865. Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster, 2006. Originally published in 1978.

Case, Jay Riley. Faith and Fury: Eli Farmer on the Frontier, 1794-1881. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2018.

_____. An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicals and World Christianity, 1812-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Donovan, Jane. Henry Foxall: Methodist, Industrialist, American. Nashville, TN: New Room Books, 2017.

Dunn, Durwood. The Civil War in Southern Appalachian Methodism. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2014.

Evans, W. F., and Catherine L. Albanese. The Spiritual Journals of Warren Felt Evans: From Methodism to Mind Cure. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016.

Flores, Daniel F. Nathan Bangs : The Architect of American Methodism. New York: Daniel F. Flores, 2015.

_____. Respectable Methodism: Nathan Bangs and Respectability in Nineteenth-Century American Methodism. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023.

Goen, Charles C. Broken Churches, Broken Nation: Denominational Schisms and the Coming of the Civil War. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1985.

Hare, Jan, and Jean Barman. Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast. Vancouver, British Columbia: University of British Columbia Press, 2006.

Hartley, Benjamin L. Evangelicals at a Crossroads: Revivalism & Social Reform in Boston, 1860-1910. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press, 2011.

Heinz, Anne M., and John P. Heinz. Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln’s Country: The Dumville Family Letters. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Jones, Donald G. The Sectional Crisis and Northern Methodism: A Study in Piety, Political Ethics, and Civil Religion. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1979.

Maddox, Jared. Nathan Bangs and the Methodist Episcopal Church: The Spread of Scriptural Holiness in Nineteenth-century America. Nashville: New Room Books, 2018.

Marti, Donald B. “Rich Methodists: The Rise and Consequences of Lay Philanthropy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, Chapter 16, 265-276.

Mathews, Donald G. “Evangelical America: The Methodist Ideology,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 1, 17-30.

McCleary, Paul F. Reform Movements in Methodism Brought on by Societal Issues, 1830-1885. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corp, 2015.

Momany, Christopher P. Compelling Lives: Five Methodist Abolitionists and the Ideas that Inspired Them. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Richey, Russell E. A Church’s Broken Heart: Mason-Dixon Methodism. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2021.

Richey, Russell E. Methodism in the American Forest. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Rogal, Samuel J. James Strong: A Biography of the Methodist Scholar. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2020.

Salter, Darius. God Cannot Do Without America: Matthew Simpson and the Apotheosis of Protestant Nationalism. Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2017.

Schneider, A. Gregory. “Social Religion, the Christian Home, and Republican Spirituality in Antebellum Methodism,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, Chapter 12, 192-208.

_____. The Way of the Cross Leads Home: The Domestication of American Methodism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Selles, Johanna M. Methodists and Women’s Education in Ontario, 1836-1925. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996.

Shaver, Lisa J. Beyond the Pulpit: Women’s Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Strong, Douglas M. Perfectionist Politics: Ecclesiastical Abolitionism and the Tensions of American Democracy. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997.

Watson, Kevin. Old or New School Methodism?: The Fragmentation of a Theological Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Wellings, Martin. “Nathan Bangs and the Methodist Episcopal Church: The Spread of Scriptural Holiness in Nineteenth-Century America.” Wesley and Methodist Studies 12 (June 1, 2020): 214–15.

Wolffe, John. The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2007.

Woodruff Tait, Jennifer L. The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2011.

20th Century Studies

Collins, Kenneth J. Power, Politics and the Fragmentation of Evangelicalism: From the Scopes Trial to the Obama Administration. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2012.

Davis, Morris L., Jr. The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Day, Alfred T., III, ed. Jubilee: 50th Anniversary of The United Methodist Church. Nashville: Cokesbury, 2018.

Dupont, Carolyn Renée. Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Flatt, Kevin N. After Evangelicalism: The Sixties and the United Church of Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2013.

Gorrell, Donald K. The Age of Social Responsibility: The Social Gospel in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1988.

Knotts, Alice G. Fellowship of Love: Methodist Women changing American Racial Attitudes, 1920-1968. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1996.

Kostlevy, William. Holy Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Marsh, Charles. God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.

Messer, Donald E., and William J. Abraham, eds. Unity, Liberty and Charity: Building Bridges under Icy Waters. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

Muelder, Walter G. Methodism and Society in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Abingdon Press, 1961.

Murray, Peter C. Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930-1975. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004.

Reiff, Joseph T. Born of Conviction: White Methodists and Mississippi’s Closed Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Sledge, Robert Watson. Hands on the Ark: The Struggle for Change in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1914-1939. Lake Junaluska, NC: General Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church, 1975.

Straughn, James Henry. Inside Methodist Union. Nashville: Methodist Publishing House, 1958.

Tipton, Steven M. Public Pulpits: Methodists and Mainline Churches in the Moral Arguments of Public Life. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press; Bristol, UK: University Presses Marketing, 2007.

Tooley, David Mark. Methodism and Politics in the 20th Century: From William McKinley to 9/11. Fort Valley, GA: Bristol House, 2011.

Washburn, Paul. An Unfinished Church: A Brief History of the Union of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1984.

Watson, Kevin. Old or New School Methodism?: The Fragmentation of a Theological Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Yrigoyen, Charles, John G. McEllhenney, and Kenneth E. Rowe. United Methodism at Forty: Looking Back, Looking Forward. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.

21st Century Studies

Dawsey, James M., and John Wilson Wells. Handbook for the Christian Faith: Essential Beliefs and Practices for Twenty-First Century American Methodists and Like-Minded Protestants, a Book About Extraordinary People. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023.

Robbins, Bruce. A World Parish? Hopes and Challenges of the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004.

African American Methodists

Allen, Richard. The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen: To which is annexed the rise and progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America: Containing a narrative of the yellow fever in the year of our Lord, 1793: With an address to the people of color in the United States. Preface by A. Lee Henderson. Nashville: AMEC Sunday School Union/Legacy Publishing, 1990.

Andrews, Dee. “The African Methodists of Philadelphia, 1794-1802.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 108 (October 1984): 471-486. Reprinted in Perspectives On American Methodism, chapter 9, 145-158.

Angell, Stephen Ward, and Anthony B. Pinn. Social Protest Thought in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1862-1939. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.

Auslander, Mark. The Accidental Slaveowner: Revising a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Bailey, Julius. Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2005.

_____. Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the A.M.E. Church. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2012.

Baldwin, Lewis V. “Invisible” Strands in African Methodism: A History of the African Union Methodist Protestant and Union American Methodist Episcopal Churches, 1805-1980. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1983.

Bennett, James B. Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Bradley, David H. A History of the A.M.E. Zion Church, 1796-1968. 2 vols. Nashville: A.M.E. Zion Publishing House, 1956-1960. Reprint, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020.

Brooks, Gennifer Benjamin. Black United Methodists Preach! Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2012.

Campbell, James T. Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Cavazos, Mary K. Queen’s Daughters: African American Women, Christian Mission and Racial Change, 1940-1960. Diss., Drew University, 2007.

Cole, Jean Lee. Freedom’s Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2013.

Daniels, George M. Turning Corners: Reflections of African Americans in The United Methodist Church from 1961 to 1993. Dayton, OH: General Council on Ministries, UMC, 1997.

Davis, Morris L., Jr. The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Dickerson, Dennis C. African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

_____. African Methodism and its Wesleyan Heritage: Reflections on A.M.E. Church History. Nashville: AMEC Sunday School Union, 2009.

—–. The African Methodist Episcopal Church: A History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

_____. A Liberated Past: Explorations in A.M.E. Church History. Nashville: AME Sunday School Union, 2003.

–––––. Religion, Race, and Region: Research Notes on A.M.E. Church History. Nashville: Legacy Publishing, 1995.

Dickerson-Cousins, Christina. Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Dodson, Jualynne E. Engendering Church: Women, Power, and the AME Church. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Dvorak, Katharine L. An African-American Exodus: The Segregation of the Southern Churches. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing Inc., 1991.

Elford, R. John, and Ian Straker. Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm: The American Methodist Church and the Struggle with White Supremacy. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2023.

Frey, Sylvia R. Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Fuller, Paul. Black Methodists in America: A Success Story of a Model Minority Group. Baltimore, MD: Publish America, 2021.

Floyd, Minuette B. A Place to Worship: African American Camp Meetings in the Carolinas. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2018.

Gardner, Eric. Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

George, Carol V. R. One Mississippi, Two Mississippi: Methodists, Murder, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in Neshoba County. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Graham, John H., and James A. Graham. Black United Methodists: Retrospect and Prospect. Madison, NJ: African American Methodist Heritage Center, 2011.

Gravely, Will B. “African Methodisms and the Rise of Black Denominationalism,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, Chapter 7, 108-126.

–––––. “The Rise of African Churches in America: Re-examining the Contexts, 1786-1822.” In African American Religious Studies, edited by G. S. Wilmore. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989, 301-317.

Gray, C. Jarrett, Jr., compiler. The Racial and Ethnic Presence in American Methodism: A Bibliography. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, UMC, 1991.

Harris, Paul William. A Long Reconstruction: Racial Caste and Reconciliation in the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Hawes, Jennifer. Grace will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.

Hildebrand, Reginald F. The Times Were Strange and Stirring: Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.

Hoggard, James C. African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1972-1996: A Bicentennial Commemorative History. Charlotte, NC: A.M.E. Zion Publishing House, 1998.

Hunter, Jeffrey. The Movement of Liberation in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press, 2020.

Johnson, Andre E. An African American Pastor Before and During the American Civil War: The Literary Archive of Henry McNeal Turner. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

_______. The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012.

——. No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2020.

Kaufman, Paul Leslie. ‘Logical’ Luther Lee and the Methodist War against Slavery. Edited by Kenneth E. Rowe and Donald W. Dayton. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000.

Kirk, W. Astor. Desegregation of the Methodist Church Polity: Reform Movements that ended Racial Segregation. Pittsburgh: RoseDog Books, 2005.

LaBoy, Felicia Howell, Keith Donaldson D. Lawrence, and Donnell J. Moore, editors. Prophets to the Nations: Black Methodism, Liberation, and the American Quest for Racial Justice: Essays in Honor of James H. Cone and Jacquelyn Grant. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2021.

Lakey, Othal L. God in My Mamma’s House: A Study of the Women’s Movement in the CME Church. Memphis, TN: The C.M.E. Publishing House, 1994.

–––––. The History of the C.M.E. Church. Revised edition. Memphis, TN: The C.M.E. Publishing House, 1996.

Lyght, Ernest S., Michele E. Watkins, Jonathan D. Keaton, and Julius Ernest Del Pino. Unmasking Racism: Coloring with Love in the Church, Community, and Academy. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2023.

Little, Lawrence S. Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in an Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000.

Logan, Sadye L.M., and Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., eds. The Spirit of an Activist: The Life and Work of I. DeQuincey Newman. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2014.

McClain, William B. Black People in the Methodist Church: Whither Thou Goest? Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

McKay, Nellie Y. “Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s Spiritual Autobiographies: Religious Faith and Self-Empowerment,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, Chapter 11, 178-191.

Mathews, Donald G. Slavery and Methodism: A Chapter in American Morality, 1780-1845. Princeton Legacy Library Collection, 2016. Reprint of 1965 edition.

Melton, J. Gordon. A Will to Choose: The Origins of African American Methodism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

Montgomery, William E. Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865-1900. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana University Press, 1993.

Murray, Peter C. Methodists and the Crucible of Race, 1930-1975. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004.

Newman, Richard S. Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Nicholas, William E. Go and Be Reconciled: Alabama Methodists Confront Racial Injustice, 1954-1974. Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2018.

Owens, A. Nevell. Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century: Rhetoric of Identification. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.

Powe, F. Douglass. Just Us or Justice: Moving Toward a Pan-Methodist Theology. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009.

Raboteau, Albert J. Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. See chapter 4, “Richard Allen and the African Church Movement.”

Rasmus, Rudy. I’m Black, I’m Christian, I’m Methodist. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.

Richardson, Harry V. Dark Salvation: The Story of Methodism as it developed among Blacks in America. New York: Doubleday, 1976.

Riley, Charlotte S., and Crystal J. Lucky. A Mysterious Life and Calling : From Slavery to Ministry in South Carolina. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2016.

Risher, Sharon, Michael W. Waters, and Sherri Wood Emmons. For Such a Time as This: Hope and Forgiveness after the Charleston Massacre. Ashland: Chalice Press, 2019.

Russell, Daniel James. History of the African Union Methodist Protestant Church. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.

Shockley, Grant S., ed. Heritage and Hope: The African American Presence in United Methodism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991.

Smith, Warren T. Harry Hosier, Circuit Rider. Nashville: Abingdon, 1994.

_____. John Wesley and Slavery. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1986. Includes facsimile reprint of Wesley’s “Thoughts Upon Slavery.”

Sommerville, Raymond R. An Ex-Colored Church: Social Activism in the CME Church, 1870-1970. Mercer, GA: Mercer University Press, 2004.

Spragin, Ore L. The History of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (1870-2009): Faithful to the Vision. Lima, OH: Wyndham Hall Press, 2011.

Stephens, Darryl W. Methodist Morals: Social Principles in the Public Church’s Witness. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2016.

Strobert, Nelson T. Daniel Alexander Payne: The Venerable Preceptor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Lanham, MD: The University Press of America, 2012.

Swetnam Mathews, Mary Beth. Doctrine and Race: African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism Between the Wars. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2017.

Talbert, Marilyn Magee. The Past Matters: A Chronology of African Americans in the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 2005.

Thomas, Douglas H., and Temilola Alanamu, eds. African Religions: Beliefs and Practices Through History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2019.

Thomas, James S. Methodism’s Racial Dilemma: The Story of the Central Jurisdiction. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992.

Thompson, Barbara Ricks, ed. The Central Jurisdiction Recovery Project: Preserving Our Past – Building Our Future. Foreword by Chester Jones. Washington, DC: General Commission on Religion and Race, the United Methodist Church, 2006.

Walker, Clarence E. A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Walls, William J. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Charlotte, NC: A.M.E. Zion Publishing House, 1974.

Williams, Gilbert A. The Christian Recorder, Newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church: History of a Forum for Ideas, 1854-1902. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.

Wimberly, Anne Streaty, Nathaniel D. West, and Annie Lockhart-Gilroy, eds. From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2020.

Asian American Methodists

Alba, Richard D., and Albert J. Raboteau. Immigration and Religion in America. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

The Burning Heart: Visions for Asian-American Missional Congregations. New York: National Program Division, General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 1990.

Chai, Alice. “Korean Women in Hawaii, 1903-1945: The Role of Methodism in their Liberation and in their Participation in the Korean Independence Movement,” in Women in New Worlds. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1981, I: 328-344.

Chen, Carolyn, and Russell Jeung. Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Gray, C. Jarrett, Jr., comp. The Racial and Ethnic Presence in American Methodism: A Bibliography. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, UMC, 1991.

Guillermo, Artemio R., ed. Churches Aflame: Asian Americans and United Methodism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991.

Jeung, Russll. Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian Americans Churches. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005.

Kim, Ai Ra. Women Struggling For a New Life: The Role of Religion in the Cultural Passage from Korea to America. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Kim, Helen. Grace Sufficient: The Story of Helen Kim. Nashville: Upper Room, 1964.

Kim, Hyung-chan. The Korean Diaspora. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Publications, 1977. See “History and Role of the Church in the Korean American Community,” 47-64.

Kim, Illsoo. “Organizational Patterns of Korean-American Methodist Churches: Denominationalism and Personal Community.” In Rethinking Methodist History, edited by Russell E. Richey and Kenneth E. Rowe, 228-238.

Kim, Jung Ha. Bridge-Makers and Cross-Bearers: Korean American Women and the Church. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Koga, Sumio, comp. A Centennial Legacy: History of the Japanese Christian Missions in North America, 1877-1977. Chicago: Nobart Inc., 1977.

Matsuoka, Fumitaka. Out of Silence: Emerging Themes in Asian American Churches. Cleveland: United Church Press, 1995.

Snow, Jennifer C. Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850-1924. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Tseng, Timothy, and Viji Nakka-Cammauf. Asian American Christianity Reader. Castro Valley, CA: Pacific Asian American & Canadian Christian Education Project and the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity, 2009.

Camp Meetings

Avery-Quinn, Samuel. Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.

Brown, Kenneth O. Holy Ground: A Study of the American Camp Meeting. New York: Garland, 1992.

_____. Holy Ground, Too: The Camp Meeting Family Tree. Hazelton, PA. Holiness Archives, 1997.

Bruce, Dickson D. And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1974.

Danielson, Robert A. Tenting by the Cross: The History and Development of the Methodist and Holiness Camp Meeting. Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2019.

Eslinger, Ellen. Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.

Floyd, Minuette B. A Place to Worship: African American Camp Meetings in the Carolinas. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2018.

Hughes, George. Days of Power in the Forest Temple: A Review of the Wonderful Work of God at Fourteen National Camp-Meetings from 1867 to 1872. Salem, OH: Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, 1975. Reprint of the 1873 edition.

Johnson, Charles A. The Frontier Camp Meeting: Religion’s Harvest Time. With an introduction by Ferenc M. Szasz. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1985.

Johnson, William Courtland. “To Dance in the Ring of All Creation”: Camp Meeting Revivalism and the Color Line, 1799-1825. Diss., University of California-Riverside, 1997.

Lander, John K. Itinerant Temples: Tent Methodism, 1814-1832. Waynesboro, GA and Carlisle, UK: Paternoster Press, 2003.

Messenger, Troy. Holy Leisure: Recreation and Religion in God’s Square Mile. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Parnes, Brenda. “Ocean Grove: A Planned Leisure Environment,” in Planned and Utopian Experiments, Four New Jersey Towns. Edited by Paul A. Stellhorn. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1980, 28-47.

Rawlyk, George A. The Canada Fire: Radical Evangelicalism in British North America, 1775-1812. Kingston and Buffalo: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994.

Scotland, Nigel. Apostles of the Spirit and Fire: American Revivalists and Victorian Britain. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009.

Scotland, Nigel. Apostles of the Spirit and Fire: American Revivalists and Victorian Britain. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009.

Uminowicz, Glenn. “Recreation in America: Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1869-1914,” in Hard At Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940. Edited by Kathryn Grover. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992, 8-38.

Weiss, Ellen B. City in the Woods: The Life and Design of an American Camp Meeting on Martha’s Vineyard. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Chaplains

Boozer, Jack S. Edge of Ministry, The Chaplain Story: The Chaplain Ministry of The United Methodist Church, 1945-1980. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 1984.

Crick, Robert. Outside the Gates: Theology, History, and Practice of Chaplaincy Ministries. New York: HigherLife Publishing, 2012.

General Board of Higher Education & Ministry. Ministry of Chaplains and Pastoral Counselors. https://www.gbhem.org/ministry/chaplaincy-endorsed-ministries/

Green, Philip L. The Mountains are Happy. Colorado Springs: Commercial Printing, 2001.

Johnson, Andre E., ed. An African American Pastor before and during the American Civil War: The Literary Archive of Henry McNeal Turner. Volumes 1 and 2. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010 and 2012.

Miller, Albert George. Elevating the Race: Theophilus G. Steward, Black Theology, and the Making of an African American Civil Society, 1865-1924. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.

Phillips, Robert J. The Military Chaplaincy of the 21st Century: Cui Bono? Texas A&M University. http://isme.tamu.edu/ISME07/Phillips07.html

Shropshire, James M., Mark C. Hicks, and Richmond Stoglin. I Was in Prison: United Methodist Perspectives on Prison Ministry. Nashville, TN: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2008.

Threlfall-Holmes, Miranda, and Mark Newitt, eds. Being a Chaplain. London, England: SPCK, 2011.

Charismatic/Pentecostal Movement

Alexander, Estrelda Y. Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011.

Alexander, Estrelda Y., and Amos Yong, eds. Philip’s Daughters: Women in Pentecostal-Charismatic Leadership. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2009.

Anderson, Allan H. An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity. Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

_____. To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

_____. Studying Global Pentecostalism: Theories and Methods. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

Anderson, Allan H., and Edmond Tang. Asian and Pentecostal: The Charismatic Face of Christianity in Asia. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2011. Originally published in 2005.

Barfoot, Chas. H. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Making of Modern Pentecostalism, 1890-1926. London and Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2011.

Blumhofer, Edith Waldvogel, Russell P. Spittler, and Grant A. Wacker, eds. Pentecostal Currents in American Protestantism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Brown, Candy Gunther. Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Bundy, David D. Visions of Apostolic Mission: Scandinavian Pentecostal Mission to 1935. Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 2009.

Burgess, Stanley M. Encyclopedia of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Corten, André, and Ruth Marshall-Fratani. Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Cox, Harvey Gallagher. Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-first Century. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1995.

Davies, Wilma Well. The Embattled but Empowered Community: Comparing Understandings of Spiritual Power in Argentine Popular and Pentecostal Cosmologies. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010.

Dayton, Donald W. The Theological Roots of Pentecostalism. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1991.

DuPree, Sherry Sherrod. African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1996.

Frahm-Arp, Maria. Professional Women in South African Pentecostal Charismatic Churches. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010.

Goff, James R., and Grant Wacker, eds. Portraits of a Generation: Early Pentecostal Leaders. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2002.

Guidelines: The United Methodist Church and the Charismatic Renewal. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1976. A statement approved by the 1976 General Conference.

Jacobsen, Douglas G. Thinking in the Spirit: Theologies of the Early Pentecostal Movement. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

–––––. A Reader in Pentecostal Theology: Voices from the First Generation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Jones, Charles Edwin. Black Holiness: A Guide to the Study of Black Participation in Wesleyan Perfectionist and Glossolalic Pentecostal Movements. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987.

–––––. The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement: A Comprehensive Guide. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.

–––––. The Charismatic Movement: A Guide to the Study of Neo-Pentecostalism, with Emphasis on Anglo-American Sources. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Kalu, Ogbu. African Pentecostalism: An Introduction. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Knight, Henry H. From Aldersgate to Azusa Street: Wesleyan, Holiness, and Pentecostal Visions of the New Creation. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2010.

Lawless, Elaine J. Handmaidens of the Lord: Pentecostal Women Preachers and Traditional Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.

Lindhardt, Martin. Practicing the Faith: The Ritual of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011.

McDonnell, Kilian, ed. Presence, Power, Praise: Documents on the Charismatic Renewal. 3 vols. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1980. Contains full texts of the official resolutions and study documents of Methodist Churches in Australia, England, and the United States.

Macchia, Frank D. Baptized in the Spirit: A Global Pentecostal Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006.

Michel, David. “Revisiting the Methodist Legacy in American Pentecostalism: Nuances in the Early Pentecostal Understanding of ‘Sanctification’ (1896-1950).” Methodist History 41 (July 2003): 196-205.

Robb, Edmund W. The Spirit Who Will Not be Tamed: The Wesleyan Message and the Charismatic Experience. Anderson, IN: Bristol House, 1997.

Robinson, James. Divine Healing, the Formative Years, 1830-1890: Theological Roots in the Transatlantic World. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011.

_____. Pentecostal Origins: Early Pentecostalism in Ireland in the Context of the British Isles. Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2005.

Sánchez-Walsh, Arlene M. Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self and Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Sanders, Cheryl Jeanne. Saints in Exile: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Smith, Calvin L. Pentecostal Power: Expressions, Impact, and Faith of Latin American Pentecostalism. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011.

Snyder, Howard A., with Daniel V. Runyon. The Divided Flame: Wesleyans and the Charismatic Renewal. Grand Rapids, MI: Francis Asbury Press of Zondervan Publishing House, 1986.

Smith, James K. A., and Amos Yong. Science and the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Sciences. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

Stephens, Randall J. “The Holiness/Pentecostal/Charismatic Extension of the Wesleyan Tradition,” in The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley, edited by Randy L. Maddox and Jason E. Vickers, 262-281.

Stewart, Adam Scott, ed. Handbook of Pentecostal Christianity. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012.

Synan, Vinson. The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1997.

–––––. The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901-2001. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001.

Wesley, John. “Cautions and Directions Given to the Greatest Professors in the Methodist Societies” (1762). In John Wesley, edited by Albert C. Outler, 298-305.

–––––. “The Nature of Enthusiasm” (1750). Sermon 37 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 2:44-60.

–––––. “The Witness of the Spirit, Discourses I and II” (1746 and 1767). Sermons 10-11 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 1:267-298.

Wilkinson, Michael, ed. Canadian Pentecostalism: Transition and Transformation. Montreal and Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.

_____. Winds from the North: Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010.

Yong, Amos, and Estrelda Y. Alexander, eds. Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Christian Education

Anthony, Michael J. Introducing Christian Education: Foundations for the Twenty-First Century. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001.

Aukerman, John H. Discipleship that Transforms: An Introduction to Christian Education from a Wesleyan Holiness Perspective. Anderson, IN: Warner Press, 2011.

Boylan, Ann M. Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Estep, James Riley, Michael J. Anthony, and Gregg R. Allison. A Theology for Christian Education. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2008.

Everist, Norma Cook. The Church as Learning Community: A Comprehensive Guide to Christian Education. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002.

Foster, Charles R., Ethel R. Johnson, and Grant S. Shockley. Christian Education Journey of Black Americans: Past, Present, Future. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1985.

Foundations: Shaping the Ministry of Education in Your Congregation. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1993. Training guide and planning set; available in Spanish and Korean.

Hels, Sharon J. Methodism and Education: From Roots to Fulfillment. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church, 2000.

Hilton, Mary and Jill Shefrin. Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices. Farnham, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.

Kohler, Robert F., and Sharon G. Rubey. The Christian as Minister: An Exploration into the Meaning of God’s Call and the Ways The United Methodist Church offers to Live Out that Call. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2013.

Lawson, Kevin E. Understanding Children’s Spirituality: Theology, Research, and Practice. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012.

Rieser, Andrew C. The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Rowe, Kenneth E. “Members,” part III, The Methodists by James E. Kirby, Russell E. Richey and Kenneth E. Rowe. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1996, 165-254.

Sell, Alan P.F. The Theological Education of the Ministry: Soundings in the British Reformed and Dissenting Traditions. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2013.

Seymour, Jack L., and Donald E. Miller. Theological Approaches to Christian Education. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

Smith, Yolanda. Reclaiming the Spirituals: New Possibilities for African American Christian Education. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2004.

Sokol, David B. “Portrayals of Childhood and Race in Sunday School Conversion Narratives, 1827-1852.” Methodist History 40 (October 2001): 3-16.

Tye, Karen B. Christian Education in the Small Membership Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.

Werner, Dietrich. Handbook of Theological Education in World Christianity: Theological Perspectives, Regional Surveys, Ecumenical Trends. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010.

Wimberly, Anne Streaty. Soul Stories: African American Christian Education. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005.

Church Architecture

Dolbey, George W. The Architectural Expression of Methodism: The First Hundred Years. London: Epworth Press, 1964.

Howe, Jeffrey W. Houses of Worship: An Identification Guide to the History and Styles of American Religious Architecture. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 2003.

Jobson, Frederick J. Chapel and School Architecture. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1991. Reprint of the 1850 edition.

Kilde, Jeanne Halgren. Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture and Worship. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Loveland, Anne C., and Otis B. Wheeler. From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2003.

The Methodist Church. Sanctuary Planning. Philadelphia: Division of National Missions of the Methodist Church, 1967.

Price, Jay M. Temples for a Modern God: Religious Architecture in Postwar America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Rowe, Kenneth E. Liturgical Space: A Research Bibliography. Madison, NJ: Drew University, 2006.

_____. “Redesigning Methodist Churches: Auditorium-style Sanctuaries and Akron-Plan Sunday Schools in Romanesque Costume, 1880-1920,” in Connectionalism: Eccelesiology, Mission and Identity, edited by Russell E. Richey, et al. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.

Thorne, Roger. Chapels!, Their Architecture and Distribution: A Preliminary Bibliography. Ottery St. Mary, England: Roger Thorn, 1994.

Westerfield Tucker, Karen B., “Plain and Decent: Octagonal Space and Methodist Worship.” Studia Liturgica 24 (1994): 129-144.

White, James F. “Early Methodist Liturgical Architecture.” Motive 18 (1958): 12-13, 19-20.

–––––. Protestant Worship and Church Architecture: Theological and Historical Considerations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

–––––, and Susan J. White. Church Architecture: Building and Renovating for Christian Worship. Revised edition. Akron, OH: OSL Publications, 1998.

Church Renewal

Barnhart, David L. Church Comes Home: Start a House Church Network Anywhere. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.

Carder, Kenneth L., and Laceye C. Warner. Grace to Lead: Practicing Leadership in the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, UMC, 2016.

Chilcote, Paul Wesley. The Wesleyan Tradition: A Paradigm for Renewal. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002.

Choe, Young J. Authentic Pastor, Authentic Leadership: A Third Person Perspective on Restoring the Church. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2012.

Harding, Kevass J. Can These Bones Live?: Bringing New Life to a Dying Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.

Heath, Elaine, and Scott Thomas Kisker. Longing for Spring: A New Vision for Wesleyan Community. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2010.

Hunter, George G. The Recovery of a Contagious Methodist Movement. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011.

Lawrence, William B. Methodism in Recovery: Renewing Mission, Reclaiming History, Restoring Health. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.

—–. A Methodist Requiem: Words of Hope and Resurrection for the Church. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2018.

Leach, Jane. A Charge to Keep: Reflective Supervision and the Renewal of Christian Leadership. Nashville, TN: Wesley’s Foundery Books, General Board of Higher Education & Ministry, 2020.

Rasmus, Judy, and Dottie Escobedo-Frank. Jesus Insurgency: The Church Revolution from the Edge. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2012.

Snyder, Howard A. The Radical Wesley: The Patterns and Practices of a Movement Maker. Franklin, TN: Asbury Seedbed Publishing, 2014.

Thorpe, Jacqulyn. God Delivers Me: A Model from Strengthening the Black Church for the 21st Century. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.

Vickers, Jason E. Minding the Good Ground: A Theology for Church Renewal. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2011.

White, Woodie W. Our Time under God is Now: Reflections on Black Methodists for Church Renewal. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993.

Church Unity and Division

Chilcote, Paul Wesley. Multiplying Love: A Vision of United Methodist Life Together. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2023.

Oliveto, Karen P. Together at the Table: Diversity without Division in The United Methodist Church. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2018.

McConkey, Dale. United Methodists Divided: Understanding Our Differences Over Homosexuality. Global Parish Press, 2018.

Milford, Brian K., ed. Holy Contradictions: What’s Next for the People called United Methodists. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018.

Renfroe, Rob, and Walter Fenton. Are We Really Better Together? An Evangelical Perspective on the Division in The United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018.

Slimp, Kevin, and Jorge Acevedo. Where Do We Go From Here?: Honest Responses from Twenty-Four United Methodist Leaders. Knoxville: Market Square Books, 2019.

Class Meeting

Goodhead, Andrew F. A Crown and a Cross: The Origins, Development, and Decline of the Methodist Class Meeting in Eighteenth Century England. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010.

Hardt, Philip F. The Soul of Methodism: The Class Meeting in Early New York City Methodism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.

Henderson, D. Michael. John Wesley’s Class Meeting: A Model for Making Disciples. Nappanee, IN: Evangel Publishing House, 1997.

Holsclaw, David F. The Decline of Disciplined Christian Fellowship: The Methodist Class Meeting in Nineteenth-Century America. Diss., University of California-Davis, 1979.

Watson, David L. Class Leaders: Recovering a Tradition. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1991.

_____. The Class Meeting: Reclaiming a Forgotten (and Essential) Small Group Experience. Wilmore, KY: Seedbed Publishing, 2014.

_____. Covenant Discipleship: Christian Formation Through Mutual Accountability. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1991. The basic program guide, designed to be used with Class Leaders and Forming Christian Disciples.

–––––. The Early Methodist Class Meeting: Its Origins and Significance. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2000. The basic historical work.

–––––. Forming Christian Disciples: The Role of Covenant Discipleship and Class Leaders in the Congregation. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1991.

_____. Pursuing Social Holiness: The Band Meeting in Wesley’s Thought and Popular Methodist Practice. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

White, Charles Edward. “The Decline of the Class Meeting.” Methodist History 38 (July 2000): 258-267.

Disability Studies

Brock, Brian, and John Swinton. Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2012.

Creamer, Deborah Beth. Disability and Christian Theology: Embodied Limits and Constructive Possibilities. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Herzog, Jr., Albert A. “From Service to Rights: The Movement for Disability Rights in the American Methodist Tradition.” Methodist History 38 (October 1999): 27-39.

Holland, Rebecca. The United Methodist Church and Disability: Essays and Practical Tips for Churches, Clergy, and People with Disabilities. The Author, 2019.

Kabue, Samuel. Disability, Society, and Theology: Voices from Africa. Limuru, Kenya: Zapf Chancery Publishers Africa, 2011.

Walker, Robert L. Speaking Out: Gift of Ministering Undeterred by Disabilities. Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2012.

Ecumenism

Surveys/Issues

Ariarajah, S. Wesley. Not Without My Neighbour: Issues in Interfaith Relations. Geneva: WCC Publications, 1999.

Blankenship, Paul F. History of Negotiations for Union Between Methodists and Non-Methodists in the United States. Diss., Northwestern University, 1965.

Cracknell, Kenneth, and Susan J. White. An Introduction to World Methodism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. See Chapter 10, “Methodism’s Ecumenical and Interfaith Commitments.”

Cracknell, Kenneth. Towards a New Relationship: Christians and People of Other Faiths. London: Epworth, 1986.

Davies, Rupert E. The Church in Our Times: An Ecumenical History from a British Perspective. London: Epworth Press, 1979.

Deschner, John. “United Methodism’s Basic Ecumenical Policy,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 30, 448-459.

George, A. Raymond, and Geoffrey Wainwright. Memoirs: Methodist and Ecumenical. Buxton: Church in the Market Place Publications, 2003.

Gros, Jeffrey, Thomas F. Best, and Lorelei F. Fuchs, eds. Growth in Agreement III: International Dialogue Texts and Agreed Statements, 1998-2005. Geneva: WCC Publications; Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2007.

Gros, Jeffrey, Harding Meyer, and William G. Rusch, eds. Growth in Agreement II: Reports and Agreed Statements of Ecumenical Conversations on a World Level, 1982-1988. Geneva: WCC Publications; Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2000.

Jackson, Arland D., and Judith P. Kerr. Ecumenical Shared Ministry and the United Methodist Church. Moorhead, MN: CHARIS Ecumenical Center, 1995.

Jones, Beth Felker, and Andrew Kinsey. God the Spirit: Introducing Pneumatology in Wesleyan and Ecumenical Perspective. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014.

Lantzer, Jason S. Mainline Christianity: The Past and Future of America’s Majority Faith. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Long, D. Stephen and Andrew Kinsey. Keeping Faith: An Ecumenical Commentary of the Articles of Religion and Confession of Faith in the Wesleyan Tradition. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012.

Lossky, Nicholas, et al., eds. Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement. Geneva: WCC Publications, 2002.

Kasper, Walter. Harvesting the Fruits: Aspects of Christian Faith in Ecumenical Dialogue. London: Continuum, 2009.

Minus, Paul M., ed. Methodism’s Destiny in an Ecumenical Age. New York: Abingdon Press, 1969.

Meyer, Harding, and Lukas Vischer, eds. Growth in Agreement: Reports and Agreed Statements of Ecumenical Conversations on a World Level. New York: Paulist Press; Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1984.

Murray, Paul D., Gregory A. Ryan, and Paul Lakeland, eds. Receptive Ecumenism as Transformative Ecclesial Learning: Walking the Way to a Church Re-Formed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Outler, Albert C. The Albert Outler Library. Vol. 2 The Churchman. Edited by Bob W. Parrott. Anderson, IN: Bristol House, 1995.

_____. That the World May Believe: A Study of Christian Unity and What It Means for Methodists. New York: Board of Missions, the Methodist Church, 1966.

_____, Albert C. The Christian Tradition and the Unity We Seek. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.

Radano, John A. Celebrating a Century of Ecumenism: Exploring the Achievements of International Dialogue in Commemoration of the Centenary of the 1910 Edinburgh World Missionary Conference. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2011.

Richey, Russell E., ed. Ecumenical and Interreligious Perspectives: Globalization in Theological Education. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, UMC, 1992. Papers delivered at the Yahara Consultation of Methodist Theological Educators, March 1990.

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell. Wilfred Cantwell Smith: A Reader. Edited by Kenneth Cracknell. Oxford: Oneworld, 2001.

Teal, Andrew. Inspiring Service: Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, and Latter-day Saint Traditions in Dialogue. Durham, UK: Sacristy Press, 2020.

Theissen, Gesa E. Ecumenical Ecclesiology, Unit, Diversity and Otherness in a Fragmented World. London: T & T Clark, 2011.

Wainwright, Geoffrey, et al. Ecumenical Theology in Worship, Doctrine, and Life: Essays Presented to Geoffrey Wainwright on his Sixtieth Birthday. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Wainwright, Geoffrey. The Ecumenical Moment: Crisis and Opportunity for the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1983.

–––––. Methodists in Dialog. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995.

_____. Worship with One Accord: Where Liturgy and Ecumenism Embrace. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Yong, Amos. Beyond the Impasse: Toward a Pneumatological Theology of Religions. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic; Carlisle, Cumbria: Paternoster Press, 2003.

Yrigoyen, Charles, ed. The Global Impact of the Wesleyan Traditions and their related Movements. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Watley, William D. Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: The African American Churches and Ecumenism. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1993.

The Ecumenical Wesley

Beckerlegge, Oliver A., ed. John Wesley’s Writings on Roman Catholicism. London: Protestant Truth Society, [1995].

Butler, David. John Wesley. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1986.

–––––. Methodists and Papists: John Wesley and the Catholic Church in the Eighteenth Century. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1995.

Colón-Emeric, Edgardo Antonio. Wesley, Aquinas, and Christian Perfection: An Ecumenical Dialogue. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009.

Diehl Yates, Kelly. The Limits of a Catholic Spirit: John Wesley, Methodism, and Catholicism. Introduction by Howard A. Snyder. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2021.

Frost, Brian, and Leo Pyle, eds. Dissent and Descent: Essays on Methodism and Roman Catholicism. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2016.

Loyer, Kenneth. God’s Love through the Spirit: The Holy Spirit in Thomas Aquinas and John Wesley. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014.

Piette, Maximin. John Wesley in the Evolution of Protestantism. Translated by the Rev. J.B. Howard, with Forwards by Bishop F.C. Kelley [and] Dr. H.B. Workman. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1937.

Todd, John M. John Wesley and the Catholic Church. London: Catholic Book Club, 1958.

Wesley, John. “The Catholic Spirit” (1750). Sermon 39 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 2:81-95.

–––––. “Letter to a Roman Catholic” (1749). In John Wesley, edited by Albert C. Outler, 493-499. For annotated edition, see John Wesley’s Letter to a Roman Catholic, edited by Michael Hurley. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1968.

–––––. “On Schism” (1786). Sermon 75 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 3:58-69.

The Ecumenical Asbury

Asbury, Francis, ed. The Causes, Evils, and Cures of Heart and Church Divisions. Salem, OH: Schmul Publishers, 1978. Asbury’s selections from Richard Baxter and Jeremiah Burroughs. Reprint of the 1856 edition; first published in 1792.

Official UMC Resolutions

Individual resolutions on ecumenism can be found in The Book of Resolutions of The United Methodist Church, 2020/2024.

Anglican/Methodist International Dialogue

Hughes, Richard A. “’Make Us One with Christ:’ Essay on the Anglican-Methodist Dialogue.” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 49, no. 3 (2014): 443-457.

Olumuyiwa, Olubunmi Taiwo. History of Anglican/Methodist Collaboration in Nigeria within the Yoruba Socio-Cultural Context. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2013.

Sharing in the Apostolic Communion: Report of the Anglican-Methodist International Commission to The World Methodist Council and The Lambeth Conference. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1996.

Tovey, Phillip. The Theory and Practice of Extended Communion. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.

Anglican/Methodist Dialogue (UK)

A Church Shaped for Mission: Study Material for Groups based on an Anglican-Methodist Covenant. London: Church House; Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 2002.

An Anglican-Methodist Covenant: Common Statement of the formal conversations between the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the Church of England. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House; London: Church House Publishing, 2001.

An Anglican-Methodist Covenant: Diocesan and Ecumenical Responses to the Next Steps. London: General Synod of the Church of England, 2003.

Fresh Expressions in the Mission of the Church: Report of an Anglican-Methodist Working Party. London: Church House Pub., 2012.

Joint Implementation Commission. In the Spirit of the Covenant: Interim Report of the Joint Implementation Commission under the Covenant between the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the Church of England. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 2005.

Turner, John M. Conflict and Reconciliation Studies in Methodism and Ecumenism in England, 1740-1982. London: Epworth, 1985.

Winfield, Flora. Releasing Energy: How Methodists and Anglicans can grow together. London: Church House, 2000.

Churches Uniting in Christ (CUIC)

For CUIC resources, see its newsletter Call to Unity and website at http://www.cuicinfo.org/. Founded in 2002, Churches Uniting in Christ is both an outgrowth and successor to the Consultation on Church Union. For official UMC response to the CUIC plan, see resolutions in 2020/2024 Book of Resolutions.

Commissions on Pan-Methodist Cooperation and Union

Commission on Pan-Methodist Cooperation. Pan-Methodist Social Witness Resource Book: A Project of the Commission on Pan-Methodist Cooperation. Edited by Luther E. Smith, Jr. Nashville, TN: AMEC Publishing House, 1991.

Consultation of Methodist Bishops. Proceedings. Edited 1979-1991 by C. Faith Richardson; edited 1991– by Mary A. Love. 6 vols. Washington, DC and Charlotte, NC: Secretary of the Consultation, 1979–.

Pan-Methodist Historical Reflections: The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church: The Consultation of Methodist Bishops since 1979, the Commission on Pan-Methodist Cooperation since 1985, the Commission on Union since 1997. [s.l.: s.n., 1998].

Poe, F. Douglas. Just Us or Justice: Moving toward a Pan-Methodist Theology. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009.

Reports of the first six meetings (lst 1979, 2nd 1981, 3rd 1983, 4th 1987, 5th 1991, 6th 1995) of the bishops of the A.M.E. Church, the A.M.E. Zion Church, the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and the United Methodist Church to map strategy for joint action and future unity.

CIEMAL (Consejo de Iglesias Evangelicas Metodistas de America Latino/Council of Evangelical Methodist Churches in Latin America)

In 1969, the UMC’s conferences in Latin America become autonomous churches. At the same time, they organized themselves into this regional council together with Methodist Churches in Mexico and Cuba.

Consultation on Church Union (COCU) 1962-2002

A consultation on church union among nine churches in the USA begun in 1962. An agreed statement on Covenanting rather than organic merger, adopted in 1988, was affirmed by the UMC General Conference in 1996.

Consultation on Church Union. Churches in Covenant Communion. Princeton, NJ: COCU, 1989. Proposed plan of church unity in which member churches accept eight “elements” which include a common apostolic faith, recognition of members in one baptism, and mutual recognition and reconciliation of the ordained ministry. Member churches would retain their own denominational names, identity, church governments, liturgy, and patterns of ministerial training and placement. Churches Uniting in Christ, founded in 2002, is both an outgrowth and successor to the Consultation on Church Union. For official United Methodist response to the CUIC plan, see 2020/2024 Book of Resolutions.

–––––. COCU Consensus: In Quest of a Church of Christ Uniting. Princeton, NJ: COCU, 1985. Doctrinal agreement by ten denominations on what constitutes the core of the apostolic faith.

Moede, Gerald F. Toward Unity in Covenant Communion. Princeton, NJ: COCU, 1988. Commentary on agreed statements and process by Methodist leaders.

Episcopal/Methodist Dialogue

Brookhart, C. Franklin, and Grgory V. Palmer. That They May Be One: The Episcopal-United Methodist Dialogue. New York: Seabury Books, 2014.

Guidelines for Bishops, Clergy and Laity for the Implementation of Interim Eucharistic Sharing between the Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church. https://www.episcopalchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/eir_UMC-TEC_Common_Guidelines.pdf

“Make Us One with Christ: A Report of the Bilateral Dialogue between the Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church. New York: Office of Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations of the Episcopal Church of the USA; General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns of the United Methodist Church, 2009. https://www.episcopalarchives.org/sites/default/files/sceir/methodist/Methodist_TEC_MakeUsOne_StudyGuide_2006.pdf

Interreligious Dialogue

Ariarajah, S. Wesley. “The Understanding and Practice of Dialogue: Its Nature, Purpose and Variants.” In Faith in the Midst of Faiths, edited by S. J. Samartha. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1977, 54-58.

–––––. The Bible and People of Other Faiths. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1985.

Barnes, Michael. Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality, and the Christian Imagination. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Berthrong, John H. All Under Heaven: Transforming Paradigms in Confucian-Christian Dialogue. Albany, NY: State University New York Press, 1994.

Cheetham, David, and Douglas Pratt. Understanding Interreligious Relations. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Cornille, Catherine. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-religious Dialogue. Wiley-Blackwell Online, 2013.

Cracknell, Kenneth. Justice, Courtesy and Love: Theologians and Missionaries Encountering World Religions, 1846-1914. London: Epworth Press, 1995.

Eck, Diana. Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.

Forward, Martin, ed. God of All Faith: Discerning God’s Presence in a Multi-Faith Society. London: Methodist Church Home Division, 1989.

–––––, ed. Ultimate Visions: Reflections on The Religions We Choose. Oxford, England; Rockport, MA: Oneworld, 1995.

Griffin, David Ray. Deep Religious Pluralism. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005.

Hurley, Michael J. “Salvation Today and Wesley Today.” In The Place of Wesley in the Christian Tradition, edited by Kenneth E. Rowe. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1976, 94-116.

Knitter, Paul F. The Myth of Religious Superiority: Multifaith Explorations of Religious Pluralism. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2005.

–––––. No Other Name? A Critical Survey of Christian Attitudes towards the World’s Religions. London: SCM Press, 1985.

Macquiban, Tim, ed. Pure, Universal Love: Reflections on the Wesleys and Inter-Faith Dialogue. Oxford: Westminster College, 1995.

Meeks, M. Douglas. Wesleyan Perspectives on the New Creation. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2004.

Price, Lynne. Interfaith Encounter and Dialogue: A Methodist Pilgrimage. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1991.

Twiss, Sumner B., and Bruce Grelle. Explorations in Global Ethics: Comparative Religious Ethics and Interreligious Dialogue. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.

Jewish/Christian Dialogue

Building New Bridges in Hope: The UMC on Jewish-Christian Relations. Cincinnati: Service Center, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1996. Statement adopted by the 1996 General Conference. See 2020/2024 Book of Resolutions.

Klenicki, Leon, and Bruce W. Robbins. Jews and Christians: A Dialogue Service About Prayer. Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1995; New York: General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns, UMC, 1995.

Schweitzer, Don. The United Church of Canada: A History. Waterloo, ONT: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011.

Sherman, Franklin. Bridges: Documents of the Christian-Jewish Dialogue. New York: Paulist Press, 2011.

Lutheran/Methodist International Dialogue

Joint Commission between the Lutheran World Federation and the World Methodist Council, 1979-1984:

The Church: Community of Grace. Geneva: Lutheran World Federation, 1984. Also in World Methodist Conference (15th: Nairobi, 1986) Proceedings, 342-360. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1987.

Pitts Theological Library. Lutherans and Methodists in Dialogue: A Celebration of Musical and Theological Traditions. Atlanta: Pitts Theology Library, 2003.

Vom Dialog zur Kanzel und Abendmahlsgemeinschaft: eine Dokumentation der Lehrgespräche und der Beschlüsse der kirchenleitenden Gremien: Herausgegeben vom Lutherischen Kirchenamt und von der Kirchenkanzlei der Evangelisch-Methodistischen Kirche. Hannover: Lutherisches Verlagshaus; Stuttgart: Christliches Verlagshaus, 1987.

Wainwright, Geoffrey. Methodists in Dialog. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995, 109-139.

Lutheran/Methodist Dialogue (US)

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Confessing our Faith Together: A Study and Discussion Guide. s.l.: ELCA-UMC Dialog Team, 2005. https://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/Confessing_Our_Faith_Together_A_Study_And_Discussion_Guide.pdf

1st series, 1977-1979:

“A Lutheran-United Methodist Statement on Baptism.” Perkins Journal 34/2 (1981): 1-56.

2nd series, 1985-1988:

Episcopacy: A Lutheran/United Methodist Common Statement to the Church. Cincinnati: Service Center, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1987. Preliminary report.

Episcopacy: Lutheran/United Methodist Dialogue II. Edited by Jack M. Tuell and Roger W. Fjeld. Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1991. Final report.

3rd series, 1996-:

“Realizing Unity between Lutherans and United Methodists (1996)” In Book of Resolutions 1996, 713-714.

Tavast, Timo. Unity in the Triune God: Trinitarian Theology in the Full-Communion Agreements of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2013.

Muslim/Methodist Dialogue

Bulliet, Richard W. Methodists and Muslims: My Life as an Orientalist. Harvard University Press, 2020.

Our Muslim Neighbors, 1992, amended and readopted 2004. See 2012 Book of Resolutions.

Orthodox/Methodist Dialogue

Frost, Brian. Living in Tension Between East and West. London: New World Publications, 1984.

Kimbrough, Jr., S T. Orthodox and Wesleyan Ecclesiology. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2007.

–––––. Orthodox and Wesleyan Scriptural Understanding and Practice. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2005.

–––––. Orthodox and Wesleyan Spirituality. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002.

Maddox, Randy L. “John Wesley and Eastern Orthodoxy.” Asbury Theological Journal 45/2 (Fall 1990): 29-53.

Orthodox and Methodists. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1996. A statement by the Joint Preparatory Commission inaugurating an International Orthodox-Methodist Dialogue.

Wainwright, Geoffrey. Methodists in Dialog. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995, 161-185.

Reformed/Methodist International Dialogue

Campbell, Ted, et al. Ancient Faith and American-born Churches: Dialogues between Christian Traditions. New York: Paulist Press, 2006.

“Our Common Faith.” In World Methodist Conference (15th: Nairobi, 1986) Proceedings, 339-342. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1987.

Marshall, I. Howard. Kept by the Power of God: A Study of Perseverance and Falling Away. London: Epworth, 1969.

Reformed and Methodists in Dialogue: Report of the Reformed/Methodist Conversations in 1985 and 1987. Geneva: World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1988.

Sell, Alan P. F. The Great Debate: Calvinism, Arminianism and Salvation. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1983.

“Together in God’s Grace.” Reformed World 39/8 (December 1987): 823-28.

Wainwright, Geoffrey. Geoffrey Wainwright on Wesley and Calvin: Sources for Theology, Liturgy and Spirituality. Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1987.

–––––. Methodists in Dialog. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995, 143-158.

Roman Catholic/Methodist International Dialogue

The Grace Given You in Christ: Catholics and Methodists Reflect Further on the Church; Report of the International Commission for Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 2006.

Joint Commission between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council

1st series, 1967-1970:

Denver Report, in World Methodist Conference (12th: Denver, 1971) Proceedings. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1972, 39-68.

2nd series, 1972-1975:

Dublin Report, in World Methodist Conference (13th: Dublin, 1976) Proceedings. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1977, 254-270.

3rd series, 1977-1981:

Honolulu Report, in World Methodist Conference (14th: Honolulu, 1981) Proceedings. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1982, 264-277.

Reports 1-3 can be found in: Growth in Agreement: Reports and Agreed Statements of Ecumenical Conversations on a World Level, edited by Harding Meyer and Lukas Vischer. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1984, 307-387.

4th series, 1981-1986:

Nairobi Report. “Towards a Statement on the Church” in World Methodist Council (15th: Nairobi, 1986) Proceedings. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1987, 360-372.

5th series, 1986-1991:

Singapore Report. The Apostolic Tradition. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1991. Also in World Methodist Conference (16th: Singapore, 1991) Proceedings. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1992, 287-310.

6th series, 1991-1996:

Rio Report. The Word of Life: A Statement on Revelation and Faith. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1996. Also in World Methodist Conference (17th: Rio de Janeiro, 1996) Proceedings. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1997, 286-319.

7th series, 1997-2001:

Speaking the Truth in Love: Teaching Authority among Catholics and Methodists: A Report of the Commission for Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Methodist Council. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 2001.

Murray, P.D. and Luca Badini Confalonieri. Receptive Ecumenism and the Call to Catholic Learning Exploring a Way for Contemporary Ecumenism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

United Methodist Church. Through Divine Love: The Church in Each Place and All Places. New York: General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns, United Methodist Church; Washington, DC: National Council of Bishops, 2005.

General Studies

Asante, Emmanuel. The Roman Catholic and Methodist Churches in Dialogue: Perspectives on Inter-church relations. Ghana: Methodist Book Depot, 1998.

Butler, David. Methodists and Papists: John Wesley and the Catholic Church in the Eighteenth Century. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1995.

Chapman, David M. In Search of the Catholic Spirit: Methodists and Roman Catholics in Dialogue. Peterborough, UK: Epworth, 2004.

Lane, A. N. S. Justification by Faith in Catholic-Protestant Dialogue: An Evangelical Assessment. London; New York: T & T Clark, 2002.

Massa, Mark S. “The Catholic Wesley: A Revisionist Prolegomenon.” Methodist History 22 (1983-84): 38-53.

One in Christ 22 (1986). See articles by C. Rand, G. Tavard, and G. Wainwright and the Nairobi Report with commentary by J. M. R. Tillard.

Outler, Albert C. “An Olive Branch to the Romans, 1970s Style: United Methodist Initiative, Roman Catholic Response.” Methodist History 13 (January 1975): 52-56. Includes full text of the 1970 General Conference “Resolution of Intent” to interpret the Articles of Religion of the UMC in the light of current ecumenical commitments, plus background, commentary and official Roman Catholic response.

Rusch, William G., and Jeffrey Gros. Deepening Communion: International Ecumenical Documents with Roman Catholic Participation. New York: Paulist Press, 1998.

Synthesis: Together to Holiness: 40 Years of Methodist and Roman Catholic Dialogue. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 2010.

Tavard, George H., “For a Dialogue on Sacraments [survey of Methodist/Roman Catholic International Dialogue statements] 1967-1991” One In Christ 31/2 (1995): 122-145.

Wainwright, Geoffrey. Methodists in Dialog. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995. 37-106.

–––––. With One Accord. Washington, DC: Pastoral Press, 1996.

Roman Catholic/Methodist Dialogue (UK)

Butler, David. “The British Roman Catholic-Methodist Dialog, 1984-2002.” Epworth Review 29.3 (July 2002): 9-15.

Can the Roman Catholic and Methodist Churches be Reconciled? A Report to the Conference, 1992. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1992.

Marriages with Roman Catholics. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1994.

Mary, Mother of the Lord, Sign of Grace, Faith and Holiness. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1996.

Morgan, Marion, and Rupert E. Davies. Will you walk a little faster? Letters between a Roman Catholic and a Methodist. London: Epworth Press, 1984.

Roman Catholic/Methodist Committee in Britain. Eucharist, Ministry, Authority: Statements agreed by Roman Catholics and Methodists. Abbotts Langley, Herts: Catholic Information Services on behalf of the Roman Catholic/Methodist Committee, 1981.

Williams L. Bryan. Via Media Philosophy Holiness Unto Truth: Intersections between Wesleyan and Roman Catholic Voices. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009.

Roman Catholic/Methodist Dialogue (US)

1st series, 1966-1970:

“Shared Convictions about Education, 1970”.

2nd series, 1971-1976:

Holiness and Spirituality of the Ordained Ministry. Washington: Publication Office, United States Catholic Conference, 1976. Also in Ecumenical Trends 5/3 (March, 1976): 33-45.

3rd series, 1977-1981:

Eucharistic Celebration: Converging Theology-Divergent Practice. Cincinnati: Service Center, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1981.

The first three United Methodist/Roman Catholic reports may be found in Building Unity: Ecumenical Dialogues with Roman Catholic Participation in the United States, edited by Joseph A. Burgess and Jeffrey Gros, 291-322. New York: Paulist Press, 1989.

4th series, 1986-1989:

Holy Living, Holy Dying: A United Methodist/Roman Catholic Common Statement. Cincinnati: Service Center, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1989.

“Understanding Living and Dying as Faithful Christians.” 1992 resolution. In Book of Resolutions, 1996.

5th series, 1995-2000:

Yearning to Be One: Spiritual Dialogue between Catholics and United Methodists. Nashville, TN: Discipleship Resources; Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 2000.

6th series, 2001-2006;

Through Divine Love: The Church in Each Place and All Places. s.l.: The United Methodist-Catholic Dialogue, 2006.

General Studies

Encountering Christ the Saviour: Church and Sacraments. Lake Junaluska, NC: The World Methodist Council, 2011.

Methodist-Catholic Dialogues: Thirty Years of Mission and Witness. New York: General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns of the United Methodist Church, 2001.

Nelson, Michael Lee. Living in Unity: A Proposal for a Roman Catholic/United Methodist Ecumenical Parish. Diss., Wesley Theological Seminary, 2006.

Russalesi, Steven D. The History of Roman Catholic-United Methodist Dialogue in the United States, 1966-1989: A Theological Appraisal. Diss., Catholic University of America, 1991.

World Council of Churches

Three streams of ecumenical life merged in 1948 to form the WCC: Life and Work, Faith and Order and the International Missionary Council.

Churches Respond to BEM: Official Responses to the “Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry” Text, Vol. 2. Edited by Max Thurian. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1986. See United Methodist Church (USA), 177-199; United Methodist Church (Central and Southern Europe), 200-209; Methodist Church (UK), 210-229; Methodist Church in Ireland, 230-235; Methodist Church of South Africa, 236-244; Waldensian and Methodist Churches in Italy, 245-254.

Deschner, John. “The Changing Shape of the Church Unity Question.” In Faith and Order 1985-1989: The Commission Meeting at Budapest, 1989, edited by Thomas F. Best, 44-54. Faith and Order Paper No. 148. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1990.

–––––-. “The Unity of the Church and the Renewal of the Human Community.” In Towards Visible Unity: Commission on Faith and Order, 1982, edited by Michael Kinnamon, 184-197. Faith and Order Paper No. 113. Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1982.

Mulhall, Thomas A. Lasting Prophetic Legacy: Martin Luther King, Jr., the World Council of Churches and the Global Crusade against Racism and War. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2014.

Pratt, Douglas. The Church and Other Faiths: The World Council of Churches, the Vatican, and Interreligious Dialogue. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2010.

Wainwright, Geoffrey. Methodists in Dialog. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995, 189-228.

The World Council of Churches and the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Methodist Publishing House, 1979.

World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women

A global fellowship of women in churches affiliated with the World Methodist Council or in a united church of which former Methodists are a part. Begun in 1939, the federation holds world assemblies once in five years.

Born, Ethel. From Memory to Hope: A Narrative History of the Areas of the World Federation of Methodist Women. Ferrum, VA: Ferrum College, 2000.

Handbook of the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women, 2001-2006. Cincinnati: Service Center, General Board of Global Ministries, 2006.

Keller, Rosemary, ed. Methodist Women: A World Sisterhood: A History of the World Federation of Methodist Women, 1923-1986. [New York]: World Federation of Methodist Women, 1986.

Women’s Ministries: Turning Faith, Hope, and Love into Action. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2012.

World Methodist Council

An association of the world family of Methodist churches. World conferences, held on a regular basis since 1881, were called Ecumenical Methodist Conferences, 1881-1947.

Saved by Grace: A Statement of World Methodist Belief and Practice. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1996.

“World Methodist Social Affirmation,” adopted by the 1986 conference. In United Methodist Hymnal 1989, No. 886.

World Methodist Council Handbook of Information, 2007-2011. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 2011. Published quinquennially

Tuttle, Lee F. A Quinquennium in Review. Lake Junaluska, NC: World Methodist Council, 1966-1976. 3 vols, 1961-66, 1966-71, 1971-76.

Ethnicity

See also separate sections on African, Asian, Latina/o, and Native American Methodists.

Andersen, Arlo W. The Salt of the Earth: A History of Norwegian-Danish Methodism in America. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1962.

Austin, Frederick. Quest for Inclusiveness: Firsthand Perspectives on Cross-racial and Cross-cultural ministry in the United Methodist Church. San Antonio, TX: John Wesley Press, 2005.

Black, Kathy. Worship Across Cultures: A Handbook. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.

Dill, Bonnie Thornton, and Ruth E. Zambrana. Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009.

Douglass, Paul F. The Story of German Methodism: Biography of an Immigrant Soul. New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1939.

General Commission on Religion and Race. Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation, 2017-2020: Advocates for Inclusiveness: Value and Empower All Persons for Full Participation in Church and Community. Cokesbury, 2016.

González, Justo L. Out of Every Tribe and Nation: Christian Theology at the Ethnic Roundtable. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992.

Graham, B. J., and Peter Howard. The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Co., 2008.

Lyght, Ernest S., Glory E. Dharmaraj, and Jacob S. Dharmaraj. Many Faces, One Church: A Manual for Cross-racial and Cross-cultural Ministry. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006.

Mangano, Antonio. Religious Work among Italians in America: A Survey for the Home Missions Council. Philadelphia: Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, [1917].

Park, HiRho Y. Develop Intercultural Competence: How to Lead Cross-Racial and Cross-Cultural Churches. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2018.

Rozbicki, Michal, and George O. Ndege. Cross-cultural History and the Domestication of Otherness. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Sano, Roy I. From Every Nation Without Number: Racial and Ethnic Diversity in United Methodism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1982.

Whyman, Henry C. The Hedstroms and the Bethelship Saga. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.

–––––. The History of Ethnic Ministries in the New York Conference, The United Methodist Church. New York: New York Conference Bicentennial Committee, 1984.

Wimberly, Anne S. Language of Hospitality: Intercultural Relations in the Household of God. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1991. An official resource prepared by the General Board of Discipleship through the Division of Church School Publications.

Words that Hurt and Words that Heal: Language about God and People. Nashville: Graded Press, 1991. Leader’s guide plus full text of document prepared in 1988 by the United Methodist Task Force on Language Guidelines.

Evangelical and United Brethren Traditions

Albright, Raymond W. A History of The Evangelical Church. Harrisburg, PA: Evangelical Press, 1942.

Behney, J. Bruce, Paul H. Eller and Kenneth W. Krueger. The History of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979.

Brooks Blair, Sarah D. The Evangelical United Brethren Church: A Historical Sampler. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 2000.

Core, Arthur C. Evangelical United Brethren Church Reader: A Documentary Source Book. Dayton, OH: United Theological Seminary, 1963.

Day, Alfred T., III, ed. Jubilee: 50th Anniversary of The United Methodist Church. Nashville: Cokesbury, 2018.

Dennie, Steve. All for Christ: The Church of the United Brethren in Christ, 1981-2017. Huntington, IN: Church of the United Brethren in Christ, USA, 2017.

Drury, Augustus W. History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Revised edition. Dayton, OH: Otterbein Press, 1931. First published in 1924.

–––––, ed. Minutes of the Annual and General Conferences of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, 1800-1818. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1996. Reprint of 1897 edition.

Frey, Robert L. The Making of an American Church: Essays commemorating the jubilee year of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements, 2007.

Heisey, Terry M., Robert George Hower, Leon O. Hynson, and John E. Moyer. Evangelical from the Beginning: A History of the Evangelical Congregational Church and its Predecessors – the Evangelical Association and the United Evangelical Church. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2006.

Jesske, Theodore E. Pioneers of Faith: A History of the Evangelical Church in Canada. Three Hills, Alberta: EMF Press, 1985.

Longenecker, Stephen. Piety and Tolerance: Pennsylvania German Religion, 1700-1850. Metuchen, NJ : Scarecrow Press, 1994.

O’Malley, J. Steven. Early German American Evangelicalism: Pietist Sources on Discipleship and Sanctification. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

–––––. On the Journey Home: The History of Mission of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, 1946-1968. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, 2003.

_____ and Jason E. Vickers, eds. Methodist and Pietist: Retrieving the Evangelical United Brethren Tradition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011.

Smith, Jeremy H. The Staircase of a Patron: Sierra Leone and the United Brethren in Christ. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2011.

Stein, K. James. “The Church of the United Brethren in Christ: A Reluctant Denomination.” Methodist History 39 (July 2001): 240-255.

Evangelical Methodists

Bebbington, David W., and David Ceri Jones. Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in the United Kingdom during the Twentieth Century. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Case, Riley B. Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004.

_____. An Unpredictable Gospel: American Evangelicals and World Christianity, 1812-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Chute, Anthony. Why We Belong: Evangelical Unity and Denominational Diversity. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013.

Dayton, Donald W. Discovering an Evangelical Heritage. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1988. Reprint of the 1976 edition.

Dayton, Donald W., and Robert K. Johnston. Variety of American Evangelicalism. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001.

Hartley, Benjamin L. Evangelicals at a Crossroads: Revivalism & Social Reform in Boston, 1860-1910. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press, 2011.

Heidinger, James. Basic United Methodist Beliefs: An Evangelical View. Wilmore, KY: Bristol Books, 1986.

–––––. Guarding the Gospel: Biblical Faith and the Future of United Methodism. s.l.: Living Streams Publications, 2007.

–––––. Streams of Renewal: Welcoming New Life into United Methodism. Wilmore, KY: Living Streams Publications, 2004.

–––––. United Methodist Renewal: What will it take? Wilmore, KY: Bristol Books, 1988.

Howell, Leon, C. Dale White, and Scott Campbell. United Methodism @ Risk: A Wake-Up Call. Kingston, NY: Information Project for United Methodists, 2003.

Keysor, Charles W. “Methodism’s Silent Minority: A Voice for Orthodoxy.” Christian Advocate 10 (July 14, 1966): 9-10. Founding article for the Good News movement.

–––––. “The Story of Good News.” Good News 14 (March-April 1981). Special issue.

McCutcheon, William J., and William Neill. “United Methodist Evangelicals in Two Generations: The 1920s and the 1930s.” Explor 2/2 (Fall 1976): 59-72.

Nash, Ronald H. Evangelical Renewal in the Mainline Churches. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1987. See chapter “The United Methodist Church” by James D. Heidinger.

Oden, Thomas C. Turning around the Mainline: How Renewal Movements are Changing the Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2006.

Renfroe, Rob, and Walter Fenton. Are We Really Better Together? An Evangelical Perspective on the Division in the UMC. Nashville: Abingdon, 2020.

Spann, Howard Glen, Evangelicalism in Modern American Methodism: Theological Conservatives in the “Great Deep” of the Church, 1900-1980. Diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1995.

Swecker, Stephen, ed. Hard Ball on Holy Ground: The Religious Right vs. the Mainline for the Church’s Soul. North Berwick, ME: Boston Wesleyan Press, 2005.

Sweet, Leonard I., ed. The Evangelical Tradition in America. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1984.

Tooley, Mark David. Taking Back the United Methodist Church. Anderson, IN: Bristol House, 2008.

Evangelism

Abraham, William J. The Art of Evangelism. Sheffield, England: Cliff College Publishing, 1993.

Arias, Mortimer, and Alan Johnson. The Great Commission: Biblical Models for Evangelism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992.

Bevins, Winfield H. Marks of a Covenant: What the Church Today can Learn from the Wesleyan Revival. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Reflective, 2019.

Chilcote, Paul Wesley. Making Disciples in a World Parish: Global Perspectives on Mission and Evangelism. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011.

_____. The Wesleyan Tradition: A Paradigm for Renewal. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002.

Clapper, Gregory Scott. Renewal of the Heart is the Mission of the Church: Wesley’s Heart Religion in the Twenty-First Century. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2010.

Collins, Kenneth J., and John H. Tyson, eds. Conversion in the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2001.

Dunnam, Maxie D. Going on to Salvation: A Study in the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1990.

Harding, Joe A., and Ralph W. Mohney. Vision 2000: Planning for Ministry into the Next Century. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1991.

Hunter, George G., III. To Spread the Power: Church Growth in the Wesleyan Spirit. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1987.

Logan, James C., ed. Christ for the World: United Methodist Bishops Speak on Evangelism. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1996.

–––––, ed. Theology and Evangelism in the Wesleyan Heritage. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1994.

May, Cedrick. Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2008.

Morris, George E., and H. Eddie Fox, Faith-Sharing: Dynamic Christian Witnessing by Invitation. Revised and expanded edition. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1996.

Outler, Albert C. Evangelism and Theology in the Wesleyan Spirit. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1996. Reissue of two 1971 works by Outler combined into one.

Rieger, Jeorg, and Upolu Luma Va’ai, eds. Methodist Revolutions: Evangelical Engagements of Church and World. Nashville, TN: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2021.

Swanson, Roger K., and Shirley F. Clement. The Faith-Sharing Congregation: Developing Strategies for the Congregation as Evangelist. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1996.

Thompson, Andrew C. Generation Rising: A Future with Hope for the United Methodist Church. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2011.

Truesdale, Albert, editor. Wesleyan Foundations for Evangelism. Kansas City, MO: The Foundry Publishing, 2020.

Tuttle, Robert G., Jr. On Giant Shoulders: The History, Role and Influence of the Evangelist in the Movement called Methodism. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1984.

Family Studies

Carney, Charity. Ministers and Masters: Methodism, Manhood, and Honor in the Old South. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2011.

Coe, Bufford W. John Wesley and Marriage. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1996.

Lawrence, Anna M. One Family under God: Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Translantic Methodism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Healing and Health Care

Bollinger, Sarah E., and Angela R. Olsen. The Awakened Life: An 8-Week Guide to Student Well-Being. Nashville: GBGM, The United Methodist Church, 2019.

Crouch, Timothy J., ed. and comp. A United Methodist Rite for Anointing. Cleveland: Order of St. Luke Publications, 1986.

Crummey, David C. Factors In The Rise of Methodist Hospitals and Homes. Diss., University of Chicago, 1963.

Day, Albert E. Letters On The Healing Ministry, with study guide by James K. Wagner. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1986. Reprint of 1946 edition.

Donat, James G. “Empirical Medicine in the 18th Century: The Rev. John Wesley’s Search for Remedies that Work.” Methodist History 45 (July 2006): 216-226.

Guerrant, William C. Organic Wesley: A Christian Perspective on Food, Farming, and Faith. Franklin, TN: Seedbed Publishing, 2015.

“Health and Wholeness,” 1984; “Universal Access to Health Care,” 1992. Book of Resolutions 1996, 274-78, 424-27.

Health for All Manual: A Congregational Health Ministries Resource. Cincinnati: Health and Welfare Ministries, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1997.

Hill, A. Wesley. John Wesley among the Physicians: A Study of 18th-Century Medicine. London: Epworth Press, 1958.

Holifield, E. Brooks. Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition. New York: Crossroads/Continuum, 1986.

Jones, Scott J., and Bruce R. Ough. The Future of the United Methodist Church: Seven Vision Pathways. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2010.

Madden, Deborah. “Inward and Outward Health”: John Wesley’s Holistic Concept of Medical Science, the Environment, and Holy Living. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2012.

Maddox, Randy L. “John Wesley on Holistic Health and Healing.” Methodist History 46 (October 2007): 4-33.

Proeschold-Bell, Rae Jean, and Jason Byassee. Faithful and Fractured: Responding to the Clergy Health Crisis. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018.

Robinson, James. Divine Healing, the Formative Years, 1830-1890: Theological Roots in the Transatlantic World. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011.

Rowe, Kenneth E. “Temples of Healing: The Founding Era of Methodist Hospitals, 1880-1900.” Methodist History 46 (October 2007): 47-57.

Shim, Gunshik. “Methodist Medical Mission in Korea.” Methodist History 46 (October 2007): 34-46.

Smith, Dean G., and Rob A. Fringer, eds. Wesleyan Perspectives on Human Flourishing. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2021.

Sproull, Alden E. A Wesleyan Spirituality for the Poor of Spirit in Healthcare. Diss., San Francisco Theological Seminary, 2002.

Stanger, Frank Bateman. God’s Healing Community. Wilmore, KY: Francis Asbury Publishing Co., 1985. Reprint of 1978 Abingdon edition.

Wagner, James K. An Adventure in Healing and Wholeness: The Healing Ministry in the Church Today. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1993.

Wagner, James K. Blessed to be a Blessing: How to Have an Intentional Healing Ministry in Your Church. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1980.

Webster, Robert. Methodism and the Miraculous: John Wesley’s Idea of the Supernatural and the Identification of Methodists in the Eighteenth-century. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2013.

Wesley, John. “On Visiting the Sick” (1786). Sermon 98 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 3:384-397.

–––––. Primitive Remedies. Santa Barbara, CA: Woodbridge Press Publishing Co., 1973. Reprint of 1755 edition.

–––––. Wesley’s Primitive Physick. Library of Methodist Classics. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 1992. Facsimile reprint of the first printing by the Methodists in America, 1791.

Wilder, Franklin. The Remarkable World of John Wesley: Pioneer in Mental Health. Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1978.

Higher Education

For works on Theological Education, see Part 4.

Bowser, Beth A. Living the Vision: The University Senate of the Methodist Episcopal Church, The Methodist Church, and The United Methodist Church, 1892-1991. Nashville: Board of Higher Education and Ministry, UMC, 1992.

Brawley, James P. Two Centuries of Methodist Concern: Bondage, Freedom, and Education of Black People. New York: Vantage Press, 1974.

Burtchaell, James Tunstead. The Dying of the Light: The Disengagement of Colleges and Universities from their Christian Churches. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1998. See Chapter 3, “The Methodists”.

Campbell, Barbara E. To Educate is to Teach to Live: Women’s struggles toward Higher Education. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 2005.

Cartwright, Michael G. and Merle D. Strege. Called to Unite Knowledge & Vital Piety: Indiana’s Wesleyan-related Universities. Indianapolis, IN: University of Indianapolis Press, 2012.

Cole, Charles E., ed. Something More Than Human: Biographies of Leaders in American Methodist Higher Education. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, UMC, 1986.

Cuninggim, Merrimon. Uneasy Partners: The College and the Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.

Dent, Frank Lloyd. “Motive” Magazine: Advocating the Arts and Empowering the Imagination in the Life of the Church. Diss., Columbia University, 1989.

Duvall, Sylvanus M. The Methodist Episcopal Church and Education up to 1869. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, 1928.

Elliot, T. Michael. To Give the Key to Knowledge: United Methodists and Education, 1784-1976. Nashville: National Commission on United Methodist Higher Education, 1976.

Fedje, Raymond N. The Wesley Foundation Idea: A Selective History. Diss., Boston University, 1964.

Griffin, Paul R. Black Theology as the Foundation of Three Methodist Colleges: The Educational Views and Labors of Daniel Payne, Joseph Price, and Isaac Lane. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.

Johnson, Terrell E. A History of Methodist Education and its Influence on American Public Education. Diss., Southern Illinois University, 1989.

Knotts, Alice G. To Transform the World: Vital United Methodist Campus Ministries. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2009.

Kulaga, Jon S., and John Paul Vincent. Cornerstones of Spiritual Vitality: Toward an Understanding of Wesleyan Spirituality in Christian Higher Education. Wilmore, KY: Asbury College, 2009.

Lee, Umphrey. For the Rising Generation: A Sketch of the Methodist Heritage in Higher Education. Nashville: Methodist Publishing House, 1958.

Marsden, George M., and Bradley J. Longfield, eds. The Secularization of the Academy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Marsden, George M. The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Morrison, Theodore. Chautauqua: A Center for Education, Religion and the Arts in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.

Selles, Johanna M. Methodists and Women’s Education in Ontario, 1836-1925. Montreal and Buffalo: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996.

Sloan, Douglas. Faith and Knowledge: Mainline Protestantism and American Higher Education. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1994.

Swarthout, Arthur W. Educational Institutions of the United Methodist Church and its Predecessor Bodies. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, UMC, 1999.

Vaughn, Gerald F. “John R. Allen Asks: ‘Do We Know God?’: Teaching Psychology, Logic, Ethics, and the History of Philosophy at a Methodist University a Century Ago.” Methodist History 45 (July 2006): 204-215.

_____. “Teaching Moral Philosophy in the South during Slavery and Reconstruction: Edward Wadsworth of LaGrange College and Southern University.” Methodist History 46 (April 2008): 179-188.

–––––. “William Belton Murrah: President of Millsaps College and Southern Bishop in America’s Progressive Era.” Methodist History 45 (July 2007): 254-264.

Wicke, Myron F. The Methodist Church and Higher Education, 1939-1964. Nashville: Division of Higher Education, The Methodist Church, 1965.

Willie, Sarah Susannah. Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race. New York: Routledge, 2003. See chapter “Methodist Northwestern and Congregationalist Howard Briefly Introduced.”

Hispanic or Latino/a American Methodists

Anderson, E. Byron. Worship Matters: A United Methodist Guide to Ways to Worship. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1999. See chapter “Worship in the Hispanic United Methodist Church.”

Barton, Paul Thomas, and David Maldonado, Jr. Hispanic Christianity within Mainline Traditions: A Bibliography. Decatur: Asociacion para la Educacion Teologica Hispana, 1998.

Barton, Paul Thomas. In Both Worlds: A History of Hispanic Protestantism in the U.S. Southwest (Texas and New Mexico). Diss., Southern Methodist University, 1999.

_____. Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.

Benavides, Luis Enrique. Latino Christianity: History, Ministry, and Theology: The New England United Methodist Situation. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, UMC, 2005.

Byrn, Harold. A Dream Unfolding: A History Presentation of the Methodist Movement in Arizona, southern Nevada, and southeastern California, now known as the Desert Southwest Conference, the United Methodist Church. Phoenix, AZ: The Desert Southwest Conference, Archives and History Commission, 1999.

Garza, Minerva N. “The Influence of Methodism on Hispanic Women through Women’s Societies.” Methodist History 34 (January 1996): 78-89.

González, Justo L., ed. Each in Our Own Tongue: A History of Hispanic United Methodism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991. Also available in Spanish: En nuestra propria lengua.

–––––, ed. Voces: Voices from the Hispanic Church. Nashville: Abingdon, 1992.

Gray, C. Jarrett, Jr., comp. The Racial and Ethnic Presence in American Methodism: A Bibliography. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, UMC, 1991.

Harwood, Thomas. History of the New Mexico, Spanish and English Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1850 to 1910. 2 vols. Albuquerque, NM: El Abogado Press, 1908-1910.

The Hispanic Vision for Century III. San Antonio, TX: MARCHA, the National Hispanic United Methodist Caucus, 1985.

Maldonado, David, Jr., ed. Protestantes/Protestants: Hispanic Christianity within Mainline Traditions. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1999.

_____. Crossing Guadalupe Street: Growing up Hispanic and Protestant. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Martínez, Joel N., et al. Los Profetas: The Prophetic Role of Hispanic Churches in America. Edited by Daniel F. Flores. Nashville, TN: Wesley’s Foundery Books, General Board of Higher Education & Ministry, 2022.

Martinez, Juan Francisco. Sea la Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2006.

Meeks, M. Douglas. Trinity, Community, and Power: Mapping Trajectories in Wesleyan Theology. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2000. See Robert C. Bondi’s chapter “Salvation as a Work of the Trinity: An Attempt at a Holistic understanding from a Latin American Perspective.”

Náñez, Alfredo. History of the Rio Grande Conference of The United Methodist Church. Dallas: Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, 1981. Also available in Spanish.

Náñez, Clotilde. “Hispanic Clergy Wives: Their Contribution to United Methodism in the Southwest.” In Women in New Worlds, ed. Hilah Thomas, et al. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1981, I: 161-177.

National Plan for Hispanic/Latino Ministry of The United Methodist Church. New York: Communications Unit, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 2005.

Peña, Elena de la. Faithful Journeys of Hispanic Methodist Women. s.l.: s.n., 1987.

Recinos, Harold J. Hear the Cry!: A Latino Pastor Challenges the Church. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989.

Rieger, Joerg, and John Vincent, eds. Methodist and Radical: Rejuvenating a Tradition. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2003. See Jione Havea’s chapter “Methodism and Latin American Liberation Movements.”

Rivas-Druck, Michael G. Hispanic-American Theological Perspectives. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education, UMC, 1986.

Holiness Movement

Alexander, Estrelda. Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011.

Avery-Quinn, Samuel. Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.

Bangs, Carl. Phineas F. Bresee: His Life in Methodism, the Holiness Movement, and the Church of the Nazarene. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1995.

Black, Robert E., and Wayne E. Caldwell, ed. Reformers and Revivalists: The History of The Wesleyan Church. Indianapolis, IN: Wesley Press, 1992.

Black, Robert E., and Keith W. Drury. The Story of the Wesleyan Church. Indianapolis, IN: Wesleyan Publishing House, 2012.

Busic, David A. The City: Urban Churches in the Wesleyan-Holiness Tradition. Kansas City: The Foundry Publishing, 2020.

Brasher, J. Lawrence. The Sanctified South: John Lakin Brasher and the Holiness Movement. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Callen, Barry L., ed. The Holy River of God: Currents and Contributions of the Wesleyan Holiness Stream of Christianity. Aldersgate Press, 2016.

Chapell, Colin B. Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him: Radical Holiness Theology and Gender in the South. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2016.

Dayton, Donald W. The American Holiness Movement: A Bibliographic Introduction. Wilmore, KY: B.L. Fisher Library, Asbury Theological Seminary, 1971.

–––––. Discovering an Evangelical Heritage. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1988. Reprint of the 1976 edition.

–––––. The Theological Roots of Pentecostalism. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987.

Dayton, Donald W., and Christian T. Collins Winn, ed. From the Margins: A Celebration of the Theological Work of Donald W. Dayton. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2007.

Dieter, Melvin E. The 19th-Century Holiness Movement. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1998.

Giggie, John Michael. After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. See chapter, “The Making of the African American Holiness Movement.”

Haines, Lee M., and Paul William Thomas. An Outline History of the Wesleyan Church. 6th revised edition. Indianapolis, IN: Wesley Press, 2005.

Hamilton, Barry W. William Baxter Godbey: Itinerant Apostle of the Holiness Movement. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

Hartley, Benjamin. Evangelicals at a Crossroads: Revivalism & Social Reform in Boston, 1860-1910. Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire Press, 2011.

Ingersol, Stan, et al. Our Watchword & Song: The Centennial History of the Church of the Nazarene. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2009.

Irons, Kendra Weddle. “Phoebe Palmer: Chosen, Tried, Triumphant (An Examination of Her Calling in Light of Current Research).” Methodist History 37 (October 1998): 28-36.

Jones, Charles E. Holiness-Pentecostal Movement: A Comprehensive Guide. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

_____. Perfectionist Persuasion: The Holiness Movement and American Methodism, 1867-1936. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 2002.

_____. The Wesleyan Holiness Movement: A Comprehensive Guide. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press; Chicago: American Theological Library Association, 2005.

Knight, Henry H. Anticipating Heaven Below: Optimism of Grace from Wesley to the Pentecostals. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014.

Kostlevy, William C. The A to Z of the Holiness Movement. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010.

_____. Holiness Manuscripts: A Guide to Sources Documenting the Wesleyan Holiness Movement in the United States and Canada. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

_____. Holy Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Kostlevy, William, Gari-Anne Patzwald, and Wallace Thornton, Jr. Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement, Third Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.

Lennox, Stephen J. A Holiness Hermeneutic: Biblical Interpretation in the American Holiness Movement (1875-1920). Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2018.

McKenna, David L. A Future with A History: The Wesleyan Witness of the Free Methodist Church. Indianapolis: Light and Life Press, 1995.

McLeister, Ira Ford. Conscience and Commitment: The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of America. 4th revised edition. Wesleyan History series, Vol. 1. Marion, IN: Wesley Press, 1976.

Mann, Mark H. Perfecting Grace: Holiness, Human Being, and the Sciences. New York: T & T Clark, 2006.

Marston, Leslie Ray. From Age to Age A Living Witness: A Historical Interpretation of Free Methodism’s First Century. Winona Lake, IN: Light and Life Press, 1960.

Robinson, James. Divine Healing, the Holiness-Pentecostal Transition Years, 1890-1906: Theological Transition in a Transatlantic World. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2013.

Salter, Darius. The Demise of the American Holiness Movement: A Historical, Theological, Biblical, and Cultural Exploration. Wilmore, KY: First Fruits Press, 2020.

Smith, Timothy L. Called Unto Holiness: The Story of the Nazarenes, the Formative Years. Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1962. 2 vols. Vol. 2 by W. T. Purkiser.

–––––. “The Holiness Crusade.” In History of American Methodism, edited by Emory S. Bucke, 2:608-627.

–––––. Revivalism and Social Reform: American Protestantism on the Eve of the Civil War. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. Reprint of 1957 edition.

Snyder, Howard A. Populist Saints: B.T. and Ellen Roberts and the first Free Methodists. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006.

Sweeney, Douglas A. The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2005.

Synan, Vinson. The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement in the United States. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1971.

–––––. The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1997.

Thomas, Paul Westphal, and Paul William Thomas. The Days of our Pilgrimage: The History of the Pilgrim Holiness Church. Wesleyan History series, Vol. 2. Marion, IN: Wesley Press, 1976.

Thornton, Wallace Omor. Radical Righteousness: Personal Ethics and the Development of the Holiness Movement. Salem, OH: Schmul Publishing Co., 1998.

Tracy, Wesley, and Stan Ingersol. What is a Nazarene?: Understanding Our Place in the Religious Community. Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2013.

Walls, Francine E. The Free Methodist Church: A Bibliography. Winona Lake, IN: Free Methodist Historical Center, 1977.

Ware, Steven L. Restoration in the Holiness Movement in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.

Webster, Robert, and Henry D. Rack. Perfecting Perfection: Essays in Honour of Henry D. Rack. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2016.

Wessinger, Catherine Lowman. Religious Institutions and Women’s Leadership: New roles inside the mainstream. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

Winstead, Brandon. There All Along: Black Participation in the Church of the Nazarene, 1914-1969. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2013.

Human Sexuality

Abelove, Henry. The Evangelist of Desire: John Wesley and the Methodists. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. See chapter 5, “Sexuality.”

Abraham, William J., and Donald E. Messer. Dialogue on Differences: Homosexuality and the Nature of the Church. s.l.: s.n., 2003.

Arnold, Bill T. Seeing Black and White in a Gray World: The Need for Theological Reasoning in the Church’s Debate over Sexuality. Franklin, TN: Asbury Seedbed Publishing, 2014.

Babuscio, Jack. We Speak for Ourselves: The Experiences of Gay Men and Lesbians. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991.

Benitz, Robin. The History of the Methodist Church’s Position on Homosexuality. Brevard, NC: Brevard College, 2006.

Blair, Ralph. Wesleyan Praxis and Homosexual Practice. New York: HCCC, Inc., 1983.

Boggan Dreff, Ashley. Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality. Nashville: New Room Books, 2018.

Booth, Karen. Forgetting How to Blush: United Methodism’s Compromise with the Sexual Revolution. Fort Valley, GA: Bristol House, 2012.

Brash, Alan A. Facing our Differences: The Churches and their Gay and Lesbian Neighbors. New York: World Council of Churches, 1995.

Cantrell, Wil. Unafraid and Unashamed: Facing the Future of United Methodism. Market Square Books, 2017.

Carey, John J., ed. The Sexuality Debate in North American Churches, 1988-1995: Controversies, Unresolved Issues, Future Prospects. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995. See Victor Paul Furnish’s chapter “The United Methodist Experience.”

The Church Studies Homosexuality: A Study Guide for United Methodist Groups using the Report of the Committee to Study Homosexuality. Nashville: Cokesbury, 1994. Study book with full text of the Committee to Study Homosexuality to the General Conference of 1992 and commentary plus leader’s guide by Dorothy L. Williams. 2 vols.

Colatch, John Patrick. Welcoming the Stranger: Practices of Hospitality as a Prophetic Witness to Gay and Lesbian Persons in the United Methodist Church. Diss., Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, 2003.

Crum, Gary. Mending the Methodist Fray: Tailoring a Resolution to the United Methodist Church’s Same-Sex Debate. Maitland: Xulon Press, 2018.

Dunnam, Maxie D., and H. Newton Malony. Staying the Course: Supporting the Church’s Position on Homosexuality. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003.

Fishburn, Janet Forsythe. People of a Compassionate God: Creating Welcoming Congregations. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003.

Furnish, Victor P., et al. Homosexuality, In Search of a Christian Understanding: Biblical, Theological-Ethical, and Pastoral Care Perspectives. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1981.

Geis, Sally B., and Donald E. Messer, eds. Caught in the Crossfire: Helping Christians Debate Homosexuality. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.

Hartman, Keith. Congregations in Conflict: The Battle over Homosexuality in Nine Churches. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Hilton, Bruce. Can Homophobia be Cured? Wrestling with Questions that Challenge the Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992.

Holmen, R.W. Queer Clergy: A History of Gay and Lesbian Ministry in American Protestantism. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2013.

Johnson, Jill M., David L. Barnhart, Rebekah Jordan Gienapp, and Alex Joyner. Living Faithfully: Human Sexuality and the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2017. Revised and updated, 2019.

Kuyper, Robert L. Crisis in Ministry: A Wesleyan Response to the Gay Rights Movement. Anderson, IN: Bristol House, 1999.

McConkey, Dale. United Methodists Divided: Understanding Our Differences Over Homosexuality. Global Parish Press, 2018.

Metheny, Rachel Ann. Give Me Thy Hand: A New Understanding of Eroticism for the United Methodist Church. Diss., Graduate Theological Union, 2004.

Methodist Church in Britain. Commission on Human Sexuality. Report of the Commission on Human Sexuality. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1990.

–––––. Human Sexuality: A Study Guide to the report presented to the Methodist Conference 1990. London: Methodist Publishing House, 1991.

Mickey, Paul A. Of Sacred Worth. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991.

–––––. Sexuality: Stewards of God’s Gift. Nashville: Graded Press, 1989.

Milford, Brian. Holy Contradictions: What’s Next for the People called United Methodists. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018.

Morris, Allen O. Homosexuality and the United Methodist Church: Macro-perspectives on Gay Issues and Trends in the Mainline Denomination. Lima, OH: Express, 2001.

Oliveto, Karen P. Movements of Reform and Movements of Resistance: Homosexuality and the United Methodist Church: A Case Study. s.l.: s.n., 2002.

_____. Our Strangely Warmed Hearts: Coming Out into God’s Call. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018.

_____. Together at the Table: Diversity without Division in The United Methodist Church. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2018.

Oliveto, Karen P., Kelly Turner, and Traci West. Talking about Homosexuality: A Congregational Resource. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2005.

Osinski, Keegan. Queering Wesley, Queering the Church. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021.

Osterman, Mary Jo. Claiming the Promise. Chicago: Reconciling Congregation Program, 1997. Bible study resource on homosexuality.

“Our History: Affirmation Time-Line.” Affirmation Newsletter l (Summer 1989): 3-4.

Roller, Ermalou McDuffie, and Tex Sample. On Thundering Wings: Homosexuality, Love and the Church on Trial. Winterset, IA: Golden Tree Communications, 2010.

Sample, Tex, and Amy E. DeLong, eds. The Loyal Opposition: Struggling with the Church on Homosexuality. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000.

Schaefer, Franklyn. Defrocked: How a Father’s Act of Love Shook the United Methodist Church. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2014.

Stephens, Darryl W., Michael I Alleman, Drea Brown, Ruth A. Daugherty, and Mary Merriman. Out of Exodus: A Journey of Open and Affirming Ministry. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018.

Thinking It Through: United Methodists Look at the Church and Homosexuality. Revised edition. Staten Island, NY: Methodist Federation for Social Action, 1990. Comprehensive study packet.

Udis-Kessler, Amanda. Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church. London; New York: Routledge, 2008.

Unity of the Church and Human Sexuality: Toward a Faithful United Methodist Witness. United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2018.

White, Heather Rachel. Homosexuality, Gay Communities and American Churches: A History of a Changing Religious Ethic, 1947-1977. Diss., Princeton University, 2007.

Wogaman, J. Phillip. Surrendering my Ordination: Standing Up for Gay and Lesbian Inclusivity in The United Methodist Church. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2018.

Wood, James R. Where the Spirit Leads: The Evolving Views of United Methodists on Homosexuality. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000.

Hymnology

Anderson, E. Byron. Worship Matters: A United Methodist Guide to Ways to Worship. Vols. I and II. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1999.

Bartels, Laura. “Hymns of the Status Quo: Charles Wesley and the Trinity.” Methodist History 41 (January 2003): 25-32.

Berger, Teresa. Theology in Hymns? A Study of the Relationship of Doxology and Theology according to the “Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists” (1780). Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995.

Bracken Long, Kimberly. “Methodist Worship on the Delmarva Peninsula, 1800-1850.” Methodist History 40 (January 2002): 85-98.

Bratt, James D. By the Vision of Another World: Worship in American History. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012.

Case, Riley B. Understanding Our New United Methodist Hymnal. Wilmore, KY: Bristol Books, 1989.

Chilcote, Paul Wesley. Singing the Faith: Sounds of Lyrical Theology in the Methodist Tradition. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2020.

—–. The Wesleyan Tradition: A Paradigm for Renewal. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002. See Lester Ruth’s chapter “Word and Table: A Wesleyan Model for Balanced Worship.”

Clarke, Martin V. British Methodist Hymnody: Theology, Heritage, and Experience. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Companion to Hymns and Psalms, edited by Richard Watson and Kenneth Trickett. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1988.

Cone, James H. The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1992. Reprint of 1972 edition.

Costen, Melva Wilson. African American Christian Worship. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.

Cruickshank, Joanna. Pain, Passion and Faith: Revisiting the Place of Charles Wesley in Early Methodism. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Fenner, Chris, and Brian G. Najapfour. Amazing Love! How Can it Be: Studies on Hymns by Charles Wesley. Foreword by David W. Music. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2020.

Graham, Fred Kimball. “With One Heart and One Voice”: A Core Repertory of Hymn Tunes published for use in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, 1808-1878. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

Hawn, C. Michael. One Bread: One Body: Exploring Cultural Diversity in Worship. Bethesda, MD: Alban Institute, 2003.

Hickman, Hoyt L. Worshipping with United Methodists: A Guide for Pastors and Church Leaders. Revised Edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.

Kimbrough, Jr., S T. A Heart to Praise My God: Wesley Hymns Today. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

–––––. Lost in Wonder: Charles Wesley, the Meaning of his Hymns Today. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1987.

–––––. Orthodox and Wesleyan Scriptural Understanding and Practice. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2005. See George Mulrain’s chapter “The Impact of the Psalms on Worship within Methodism.”

–––––. A Song for the Poor: Hymns by Charles Wesley. New York: Missional Education and Cultivation Program Department, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1993.

Langford, Andy. Transitions in Worship: Moving from Traditional to Contemporary. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999.

Lawson, John. The Wesley Hymns as a Guide to Scriptural Teaching. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988.

Lorenz, Ellen Jane. Glory Hallelujah: The Story of the Camp Meeting Spiritual. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1980.

Lunn, Julie Ann. The Theology of Sanctification and Resignation in Charles Wesley’s Hymns. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2020.

McClain, William B. Come Sunday: The Liturgy of Zion. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

McIntyre, Dean B. A Reference Companion to The United Methodist Hymnal and The Faith We Sing. Nashville, TN: Discipleship Resources, 2009.

Phillips, L. Edward, and Sara Webb Phillips. In Spirit and Truth: United Methodist Worship for the Emerging Church. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 2000.

Rattenbury, John E. The Eucharistic Hymns of John and Charles Wesley. London: Epworth Press, 1948. Revised edition, Cleveland, OH: Order of St. Luke Publications, 1990.

Rogal, Samuel J., comp. Guide to the Hymns and Tunes of American Methodism. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. A reference guide to the 3,901 hymns and tunes included in six major Methodist hymnals, 1878 to 1964.

Ruth, Lester. Early Methodist Life and Spirituality: A Reader. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2005.

——. Essays on the History of Contemporary Praise and Worship. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2020.

——. A Little Heaven Below: Worship at Early Methodist Quarterly Meetings. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2000.

Sanchez, Diana, ed. The Hymns of The United Methodist Hymnal. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.

Sigler, R. Matthew. Methodist Worship: Mediating the Wesleyan Liturgical Heritage. London: Routledge, 2018.

Sohl, Joyce D. God’s Mission: God’s Song. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2006.

Sohl, Joyce D, et al. Sing the Wondrous Love of Jesus: Women Hymn Writers and Their Songs. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2006.

Spencer, Jon Michael. Protest & Praise: Sacred Music of Black Religion. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990.

–––––. Black Hymnody: A Hymnological History of the African-American Church. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Temperley, Nicholas, and Stephen Banfield. Music and the Wesleys. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010.

The United Methodist Book of Worship. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 1992.

Warren, James I. O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing: The History, Nature and Influence of Music in the Methodist Tradition. Grand Rapids, MI: Francis Asbury Press of Zondervan Publishing House, 1988.

Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. American Methodist Worship. Oxford: New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

White, James F., and Karen B. Westerfield Tucker. The Sunday Service of the Methodists: Twentieth-century Worship in Worldwide Methodism: Studies in honor of James F. White. Nashville: Kingswood, 1996.

Yardley, Anne B. “Choirs in the Methodist Episcopal Church: 1800-1860.” American Music 17:1 (Spring 1999): 39-64.

_____. “What Besides Hymns? The Tune Books of Early Methodism.” Methodist History (April 1999): 189-201.

Yoder, Don. Pennsylvania Spirituals. Lancaster, PA: Pennsylvania Folklore Society, 1961. A basic work on early EUB folk hymnody.

Young, Carlton R. Companion to the United Methodist Hymnal. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993.

–––––. Music of the Heart: John & Charles Wesley on Music and Musicians: An Anthology. Carol Stream, IL: Hope Publishing Co., 1995.

Yrigoyen, Charles, John Galen McEllhenney, and Kenneth E. Rowe. United Methodism at Forty: Looking Back, Looking Forward. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008. See chapter “Worship.”

Missions

Anderson, Christopher J. The Centenary Celebration of American Methodist Missions: The 1919 World’s Fair of Evangelical Americanism. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

_____, ed. Voices from the Fair: Race, Gender, and the American Nation at a Methodist Missionary Exposition. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2012.

Barclay, Wade C. History of Methodist Missions. 3 vols. New York: Board of Missions, The Methodist Church, 1949-1957.

Bays, Daniel H., and Grant Wacker, eds. The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2003. See Russell E. Richey’s chapter “Organizing for Missions: A Methodist Case Study.”

Blue, Ellen. St. Mark’s and the Social Gospel: Methodist Women and Civil Rights in New Orleans, 1895-1965. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2011.

_____. Women United for Change: 150 Years in Mission. New York: United Methodist Women, 2019.

Born, Ethel. From Memory to Hope: A Narrative History of the Areas of the World Federation of Methodist Women. Ferrum, VA: Ferrum College, 2000.

Bruno-Jofré, Rosa del Carmen. Methodist Education in Peru Social Gospel, Politics, and American Ideological and Economic Penetration, 1888-1930. Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.

Cano Sánchez, Beatriz. El Protestantismo en México, 1850-1940: la Iglesia Metodista Episcopal. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1995.

Carey, Hilary M. God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, 1801-1908. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Cartwright, Michael G. Exploring Christian Mission Beyond Christendom: United Methodist Perspectives. Indianapolis: University of Indianapolis Press, 2010.

Chilcote, Paul W., ed. Making Disciples in a World Parish: Global Perspectives on Mission and Evangelism. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011.

Cole, Charles E., ed. Christian Mission in the Third Millennium. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2004.

–––––. Initiatives for Mission, 1980-2002. New York: General Board of Global Ministies, The United Methodist Church, 2003.

Conklin-Miller, Jeffrey. Learning Both Ways at Once: Methodist Evangelist Mission at the Intersection of Church and World. Pickwick Publications, 2020.

Copplestone, J. Tremayne. History of Methodist Missions: Twentieth Century Perspectives, 1896-1939. Volume 4. New York: Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, 1973.

Daugherty, Ruth. The Missionary Spirit: The History of Mission of The Methodist Protestant Church, 1830-1939. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2004.

Davey, Cyril. Changing Places: Methodist Mission Then and Now. Basingstoke, UK: Marshall Morgan and Scott, 1988.

Davidson, Christina Cecelia. “Disruptive Silences: The AME Church and Dominican-Haitian Relations,” Journal of Africana Religions 5:1 (2017): 1-25.

Dharmaraj, Glory E., and Jacob S. Dharmaraj. Mutuality in Mission: A Theological Principle for the 21st Century. New York: Mission Education, General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2001.

Gesling, Linda. Mirror and Beacon: The History of Mission of the Methodist Church, 1939-1968. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2005.

Gibbs, Jeremiah. Find Your Place in God’s Mission. Nashville, TN: Wesley’s Foundery Books, General Board of Higher Education & Ministry, 2020.

Gunter, W. Stephen, and Elaine A. Robinson, eds. Considering the Great Commission: Evangelism and Missiohousn in the Wesleyan Spirit. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005.

Harman, Robert J. From Missions to Mission: The History of Mission of The United Methodist Church, 1968-2000. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2005.

Hill, Patricia R. The World Their Household: The American Woman’s Foreign Mission Movement and Cultural Transformation, 1870-1920. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1985.

Hunter, Jane. The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-century-China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Hutchison, William R. Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Kemper, Thomas, and David W. Scott, eds. Methodist Mission at 200: Serving Faithfully Amid the Tensions. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2021.

Knight, Henry H., and Douglas Powe. Transforming Community: The Wesleyan Way to Missional Congregations. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 2016.

Lau, Earnest. From Mission to Church: The Evolution of the Methodist Church in Singapore and Malaysia, 1885-1976. Singapore: Genesis Books, 2008.

Leigh, Michael D. Conflict, Politics, and Proselytism: Methodist Missionaries in Colonial and Postcolonial Upper Burma, 1887-1966. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2011.

Maclin, H. T. The Faith That Compels Us: Reflections on the Mission Society for United Methodists, The First Decade, 1984-1994. Norcross, GA: Mission Society for United Methodists, 1997.

May, Andrew J. Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-east India. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2012.

May, Cedrick. Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.

Meeks, M. Douglas. Wesleyan Views of the Church in Mission. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2009.

Nuessle, John Edward, and Diana L. Hynson. Faithful Witnesses: United Methodist Theology of Mission. Nashville: General Board of Global Ministries, 2008.

O’Malley, J. Steven. On the Journey Home: The History of Mission of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, 1946-1968. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, 2003.

Partnership in God’s Mission: Theology of Mission Statement. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 1986.

Pritchard, John. Methodists and Their Missionary Societies, 1760-1900. London: Routledge, 2016.

_____. Methodists and Their Missionary Societies, 1900-1996. London: Ashgate, 2014.

Richey, Russell E., and Rex D. Matthews. The Renewal of United Methodism: Mission, Ministry and Connectionalism: Essays in Honor of Russell E. Richey. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2012.

Robert, Dana L. American Women in Mission: The Modern Mission Era, 1792-1992. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997.

_____. Christian Mission: How Christianity became a World Religion. Chichester, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

_____. Joy to the World! Mission in the Age of Global Christianity. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 2010.

Scott, W. David. Crossing Boundaries: Sharing God’s Good News through Mission. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2019.

Seat, Karen K. “Providence has Freed Our Hands”: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008.

Sims, Kirk. Dynamics of International Mission in the Methodist Church Ghana. Berlin and New York: Peter Lang, 2018.

Sledge, Robert W. Five Dollars and Myself: The History of Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1845-1939. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2005.

Snyder, Howard A., ed. Global Good News: Mission in a New Context. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001.

_____. Yes in Christ: Wesleyan Reflections on Gospel, Mission, and Culture. Toronto, Canada: Clements Academic, 2010.

Thomas, Norman E. “United Methodist History of Mission Series.” Methodist History 45 (April 2007): 140-154.

Tuttle, Robert G. The Story of Evangelism: A History of the Witness to the Gospel. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006.

Tzan, Douglas D. William Taylor and the Mapping of the Methodist Missionary Tradition: The World His Parish. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019.

Vernal, Fiona. The Farmerfield Mission: A Christian Community in South Africa, 1838-2008. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Vickers, John A. “One-Man Band: Thomas Coke and the Origins of Methodist Missions, 1760-1814.” Methodist History 34 (1996): 135-147.

Walters, Denyer Taylor. Decolonizing Mission Partnerships Evolving Collaboration between United Methodists in North Katanga and the United States of America. Wipf and Stock, 2020.

Whitehurst, Walt, and Betty C. Whitehurst. Following God’s Call: Individual Volunteers in Mission. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.

Whiteman, Darrell L., and Gerald H. Anderson. World Mission in the Wesleyan Spirit. Franklin, TN: Providence House Publishers, 2009.

Wingeier-Rayo, Philip. John Wesley and the Origins of Methodist Missions. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2025.

Yokum, Rena M., ed. New Wineskins: Faithful Mission in the 21st Century. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, 1999.

Yrigoyen, Charles, Jr. The Global Impact of the Wesleyan Traditions and Their Related Movements. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Native American Methodists

Bowden, Henry W. American Indians and Christian Missions: Studies in Cultural Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Copway, George. Indian Life and Indian History by an Indian Author. New York: AMS Press, 1976. Reprint of the 1860 edition.

Deer, Alvin, and Jorge Lockward. Singing the Sacred: Musical Gifts from Native American Communities. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, 2008.

Dickerson-Cousins, Christina. Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Duchesne, Suzanne Wenonah. “Beloved Speech: Language and Legacies of Methodist Women Leaders of the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference with Antiracist/Decolonizing Strategies for Preaching.” PhD Dissertation, Drew University, 2019.

Eagle Flights: Native Americans and the Christian Faith. Nashville: Graded Press, 1996. Student’s book plus leader’s guide.

Fassett, Thom White Wolf, and Brenda Connelly. Giving Our Hearts Away: Native American Survival. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, 2008.

Finley, James B. Life Among the Indians; or, Personal Reminiscences and Historical Incidents Illustrative of Indian Life and Character. Edited by D. W. Clark. New York: Ayer Co., 1976. Reprint of 1857 edition.

Forbes, Bruce D. “‘And Obey God, etc.’: Methodism and American Indians.” Methodist History 23 (October 1984): 3-24. Reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 13, 209-227.

–––––. “Methodist Mission among the Dakotas: A Case Study of Difficulties.” In Rethinking Methodist History, edited by Russell E. Richey and Kenneth E. Rowe, 48-58.

Gill, Jill K. “Preventing a Second Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1973: United Methodists Mediate for Peace.” Methodist History 43 (October 2004): 45-56.

Gray, C. Jarrett, Jr., comp. The Racial and Ethnic Presence in American Methodism: A Bibliography. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, UMC, 1991.

Gura, Philip F. Life of William Apess, Pequot. University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Kidwell, Clara Sue. A Native American Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2001.

Lopenzina, Drew. Through an Indian’s Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.

McLoughlin, William G. Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

McLoughlin, William G., and Walter H. Conser. Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870. Essays on Acculturation and Cultural Persistence. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Mabindisa, Isaac Kholisle, with Daniel Johns. The Praying Man, Henry Bird Steinhauer, Ojibwe and Methodist Minister. Edmonton, Alberta: Athabasca University Press, 2013.

Mann, Henrietta, and Anita Phillips. On This Spirit Walk: The Voices of Native American and Indigenous Peoples. Muskogee, OK: Native American Comprehensive Plan, 2012.

Milner, Clyde A., and Floyd A. O’Neill, eds. Churchmen and the Western Indians. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. See especially article by Bruce Forbes on Methodist missions.

Moore, David L. That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Native American International Caucus. The Sacred Circle of Life: A Native American Vision. Norwalk, CA: Native American International Caucus, 1988.

Native American Hymnal and Worship Resource Committee. Voices: Native American Hymns and Worship Resources. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1992.

Noley, Homer, ed. First White Frost: Native Americans and United Methodism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991.

Norwood, Frederick A. “The Invisible American: Methodism and the Indian.” Methodist History 8 (January 1970): 3-24.

Ortiz, Leonard. The Preservation of Native American Practices in the United Methodist Church: A Case Study in recent Protestant Missions. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

Roberts, Gary L. Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists Were Involved in an American Tragedy. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2016.

Sager, Stan. Four Corners: Where the Holy Spirit Touches Navajo Hearts. Franklin, TN: Providence House Publishers, 2007.

Smith, Donald B. Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.

Smith, Tash. Capture These Indians for the Lord: Indians, Methodists, and Oklahomans, 1844-1939. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014.

Tinker, George, Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Genocide. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.

“Native Americans,” 1980/2012. In The Book of Resolutions, 2012, 417-438.

Peace Studies

In Defense of Creation: The Nuclear Crisis and a Just Peace: Foundation Document. Nashville: Graded Press, 1986. The Bishops’ Pastoral Letter and guide for study and action.

Gee, Martha Bettis. Piece Work/Peace Work: Working Together for Peace and Sudan, Mission Study for Children and Teacher’s Guide. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, 2009.

Hughes, Michael. Conscience and Conflict: Methodism, Peace, and War in the Twentieth Century. Peterborough, UK: Epworth Press, 2008.

Mills, W. Douglas. “The Response of the Methodist Church to War and Nuclear Weapons, 1945-1990.” Quarterly Review 17/3 (Fall 1997): 257-274.

Ngaruiya, David K., and Rodney L. Reed, Editors. Forgiveness, Peacemaking, and Reconciliation. Carlisle, Cumbria: Langham Global Library, 2020.

Peacemaking: A Christian Vocation. London: The United Reformed Church and The Methodist Church, 2006.

Ramsey, Paul, and Stanley Hauerwas. Speak up for Just War or Pacifism: A critique of the United Methodist Bishops’ pastoral letter “In Defense of Creation.” University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.

Runyon, Theodore. The Politics of Peace. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989.

Sargent, James E. The Servant Image in Peacemaking. Nashville: Graded Press, 1984.

Schlabach, Theron F., and Richard T. Hughes, eds. Proclaim Peace: Christian Pacifism from unexpected quarters. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. See chapter by S. Ronald Parks “Free (but not helped) to be pacifist: Methodist COs in the Vietnam Era.”

White, C. Dale. Making a Just Peace: Human Rights & Domination Systems. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.

Will, Herman. A Will for Peace: Peace Action in the United Methodist Church, A History. Washington, DC: General Board of Church and Society, UMC, 1984.

Wilson, Robert W. Biases and Blindspots: Methodism and Foreign Policy from World War II. Wilmore, KY: Bristol Books, 1988.

Preaching

See also The Ministry of Elders and Superintendents.

Abbey, Merrill R. The Epic of United Methodist Preaching: A Profile in American Social History. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.

Brooks, Gennifer B. Black United Methodists Preach! Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2012.

Chilcote, Paul Wesley. Recapturing the Wesleys’ Vision: An Introduction to the Faith of John and Charles Wesley. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004.

Crawford, Evans E., and Thomas H. Troeger. The Hum: Call and Response in African American Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

Dickerson, Dennis C. African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

Easum, William M. Preaching for Church Transformation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2010.

Duckworth, Joshua L. “The Best of All, God is with Us: A Wesleyan Approach to Funeral Preaching,” D.Min. Asbury Theological Seminary, 2020.

Ensminger, Charles D. Crafting the Sermon: A Beginner’s Guide to Preaching. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education & Ministry, 2019.

Heitzenrater, Richard P. “Early Sermons of John and Charles Wesley.” In Mirror and Memory: Reflections on Early Methodism, 150-161.

–––––. “John Wesley’s Principles and Practice of Preaching.” Methodist History 37 (January 1999): 89-106.

–––––. “Spirit and Life: John Wesley’s Preaching.” In his Mirror and Memory: Reflections on Early Methodism, 162-173.

–––––. “Wesley as Preacher.” In his The Elusive Mr. Wesley, 2:83-89.

Irons, Kendra Weddle. Preaching on the Plains: Methodist Women Preachers in Kansas, 1920-1956. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007.

Jones, Scott J. United Methodist Doctrine: The Extreme Center. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002.

Krueger, Christine L. The Reader’s Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-century Discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. See chapter “Wise and Holy Women: the Methodist women preachers.”

Maser, Frederick E., and Richard P. Heitzenrater. The Movement that Launched a Church. Dallas: Center for Methodist Studies at Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, 1997.

Mills, Frederick V., Sr. “Methodist Preaching, 1798-1840: Form and Function.” Methodist History 43 (October 2004): 3-16.

Newburg, Kevin D. “Sermons and the Shaping of Northern Methodist Identities, 1885-1905.” Diss, Drew University, 2009.

Lawrence, William B. Sundays in New York: Pulpit Theology at the Crest of the Protestant Mainstream, 1930-1955. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996.

Lee, Jung Young. Korean Preaching: An Interpretation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997.

Lenton, John. John Wesley’s Preachers: A Social and Statistical Analysis of the British and Irish Preachers who entered the Methodist Itinerancy before 1791. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2009.

Lloyd, Jennifer M. Women and the Shaping of British Methodism: Persistent Preachers, 1807-1907. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009.

McLain, William B. Come Sunday: The Liturgy of Zion. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

Outler, Albert C. John Wesley’s Sermons: An Introduction. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991. Originally published in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 1:1-100.

Pasquarello, Michael. John Wesley: A Preaching Life. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2010.

______. The Beauty of Preaching: God’s Glory in Christian Proclamation. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020.

Richey, Russell E., William B. Lawrence, and Dennis M. Campbell. Questions for the Twenty-first Century Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999. See chapter “Has United Methodist Preaching Changed?”

Schlup, Leonard C., and Mary Ann Blochowiak. Contemporary Observations of American Religion in the 1870s: Pulpits and Polemics. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

Spencer, Jon Michael. Sacred Symphony: The Chanted Sermon of the Black Preacher. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Sweet, Leonard I., ed. Communication and Change in American Religious History. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993. See A. Gregory Schneider chapter “From Democratization to Domestication: The Transitional Orality of the American Methodist Circuit Rider.”

Sykes, Richard, ed. Beyond the Boundaries: Preaching in the Wesleyan Tradition. Oxford, England: Applied Theology Press, 1998.

Tolar Burton, Vicki. Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley’s Methodism: Reading, Writing, and Speaking to Believe. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008.

Van Dussen, D. Gregory. Circuit Riders on the Road to Glory. Emeth Press, 2020.

Voelz, Richard William. Preaching to Teach: Inspire People to Think and Act. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2019.

Wesley, John. “Address to the Clergy” (1756). In The Works of John Wesley, edited by Thomas Jackson, 10:480-500.

–––––. “Of Preaching Christ” (1751). In The Works of John Wesley, edited by Thomas Jackson, 11:486-492.

–––––. “Thoughts Concerning Gospel Ministers” (1784). In The Works of John Wesley, edited by Thomas Jackson, 7:455-456.

Willimon, William H. Accidental Preacher: A Memoir. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019.

Willimon, William H., and Michael A. Turner. A Peculiar Prophet: William H. Willimon and the Art of Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004.

Wogaman, J. Philip. Speaking the Truth in Love: Prophetic Preaching to a Broken World. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.

Xhemajli, Adhurim, and Allan Anderson. The Supernatural and the Circuit Riders: The Rise of Early American Methodism. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2021.

Publishing and Communications

Bailey, Julius. Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the A.M.E. Church. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2012.

Barfoot, Charles H. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Making of Modern Pentecostalism, 1890-1926. London and Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2011.

Batten, Joseph Minton. An Outline and Bibliographical Guide for the Study of the History of the Methodist Publishing House. Nashville: Methodist Publishing House, 1954.

Cumbers, Frank H. The Book Room: The Story of the Methodist Publishing House and Epworth Press. London: Epworth Press, 1956.

Giffen, Allison, and Robin L. Cadwallader, eds. Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-century Literature. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Kirkham, Donald Henry. Outside Looking In: Early Methodism as Viewed by Its Critics. Nashville: New Room Books, 2019.

Maynard, Edwin H. Keeping Up with a Revolution: The Story of United Methodist Communications, 1940-1990. Nashville: United Methodist Communications, 1990.

McLaren, Scott. Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.

Methodist Publishing House. Since 1789: The Story of the Methodist Publishing House. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1964.

Ness, John H., Jr. One Hundred Fifty Years: A History of Publishing in the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1966.

Pilkington, James P. The Methodist Publishing House: A History, Vol. 1. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1968. The basic history to 1870. Continued by Walter N. Vernon, The History of The United Methodist Publishing House, Vol. 2. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.

Rivers, Isabel. Vanity Fair and the Celestial City: Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England, 1720-1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Shetler, Brian. “Prophet and Profit: John Wesley, Publishing, and the Arminian Magazine.” Methodist History 53, no. 2 (January 2015): 85-100.

Sweet Leonard I., ed. Communication and Change in American Religious History. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993.

United Methodist Communications. Guidelines for Leading Your Congregation, 2025-2028: Tell Your Church’s Story. Cokesbury, 2024.

Social Thought and Action

See Part 4, Theological Ethics.

Official Statements

“Social Principles.” Book of Discipline, 2020/2024.

The Book of Resolutions of the United Methodist Church, 2020/2024. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 2025. Includes resolutions since 1968, plus a topical index.

Methodist Church in Britain. Statements on Social Responsibility, 1946-1995. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1996.

United Methodist Church. Social Principles of the United Methodist Church, 2025-2028: Includes Our Social Creed. Cokesbury, 2025.

Commentary and History

Barreira, C. Paul. Methodists and the Social Conscience in South Australia and New South Wales, 1949-1972. M.A. thesis, Australian National University, 1985.

Brake, George Thompson. Policy and Politics in British Methodism, 1932-1982. London: Edsall, 1984.

Brendlinger, Irv A. Social Justice through the Eyes of Wesley: John Wesley’s Theological Challenge to Slavery. Guelph, Ontario: Joshua Press, 2006.

Brewer, Earl D. C., and Scott L. Thumma. World Methodism and World Issues. Atlanta: Center for Religious Research, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, 1990.

Cameron, Richard M. Methodism and Society in Historical Perspective. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1961.

Charlton, Matthew W., and Timothy S. Moore, eds. Displaced Persons: Theological Reflection on Immigration, Refugees, and Marginalization. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2018.

Cooney, David Scott. A Consistent Witness of Conscience: Methodist Nonviolent Activists, 1940-1970. Diss., Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver, 2000.

Dawson, J. B. Your Kingdom Come on Earth: Methodist Social Concerns in New Zealand. Christchurch, New Zealand: Christchurch Methodist Mission, 1998.

Duke, David Nelson. In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx: Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003.

Eli, R. George. Social Holiness: John Wesley’s Thinking on Christian Community and its Relationship to the Social Order. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.

Elford, R. John, and Ian Straker. Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm: The American Methodist Church and the Struggle with White Supremacy. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2023.

Elliott, Sheila L. Women’s Religious Associations and Social Change in South Africa: A Study of Methodist Women’s Organizations. Diss., University of South Carolina, 1996.

Gaston, Herron. Call to Action: Practically Reversing the Trends of Mass Incarceration. Rosedog PR, 2019.

Gorrell, Donald K. The Age of Social Responsibility: The Social Gospel in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1988.

–––––. “The Social Creed and Methodism through Eighty Years.” Methodist History 26 (July 1988): 213-228. Reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 26, 386-399.

Harkness, Georgia. The Methodist Church in Social Thought and Action. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1972.

Heitzenrater, Richard P., ed. The Poor and the People Called Methodists, 1729-1999. Nashville, TN: Kingswood Press, 2002.

Henning, Robert James. Methodist Response to Labor Unrest in Late Nineteenth Century America: A Cultural Theory. Diss., Michigan State University, 1994.

Jennings, Theodore W. Good News to the Poor: John Wesley’s Evangelical Economics. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

Journey Toward Justice: Consultation Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Social Creed. Staten Island, NY: Methodist Federation for Social Action, 1988.

Kehrburg, Norma. Love in Action: UMCOR, 50 Years of Service. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.

Keller, Rosemary Skinner. Spirituality and Social Responsibility: Vocational Vision of Women in the United Methodist Tradition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993.

Kindwoman, Jan, and Ron Ozier, eds. Journey Toward Justice: Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Social Creed of the People Called Methodists. Staten Island, NY: Methodist Federation for Social Action, 1988.

Knepper, Jeanne Gayle. Thy Kingdom Come: The Methodist Federation for Social Service and Human Rights, 1907-1948. Staten Island, NY: Methodist Federation for Social Action, 1996.

Knotts, Alice G. Lifting Up Hope, Living Out Justice: Methodist Women and the Social Gospel. Frontrowliving Press, 2007.

Letzig, Betty J. Expressions of Faith. Cincinnati: Service Center, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1990. A study of the social welfare institutions of the National Division of GBGM.

Lyght, Ernest S., Michele E. Watkins, Jonathan D. Keaton, and Julius Ernest Del Pino. Unmasking Racism: Coloring with Love in the Church, Community, and Academy. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2023.

Link, Eugene P. Labor-Religion Prophet: The Times and Life of Harry F. Ward. Routledge, 2020. Originally published in 1984.

Long, Stephen D. Living the Discipline: United Methodist Theological Reflection on War, Civilization and Holiness. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1992.

McClain, George D. Claiming all Things for God: A Guide to Prayer, Discernment, and Ritual for Social Change. Staten Island, NY: Methodist Federation for Social Action, 1995.

–––––. “Pioneering Social Gospel Radicalism: An Overview of the History of the Methodist Federation for Social Action,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 25, 371-385.

McDowell, John Patrick. The Social Gospel in the South: The Women’s Home Mission Movement in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1886-1939. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Meeks, M. Douglas, ed. The Portion of the Poor: Good News to the Poor in the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992.

Methodist Federation for Social Service/Action. Special issue of Radical Religion 5 (1980).

Muelder, Walter G. Methodism and Society in the Twentieth Century. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1961.

Newman, Lance. The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement: Landscapes of Revolution in Transatlantic Romanticism. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Nicholas, William E. Go and Be Reconciled: Alabama Methodists Confront Racial Injustice, 1954-1974. Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2018.

Peck, J. Richard. When the Church Speaks: A Guide to the Social Principles. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 2001.

Pioneers in the Faith: The Methodist Federation for Social Action at 100 Years, 1907-2007. Washington, DC: MFSA, 2007.

Ranck, Lee, and Shanta Bryant. Church and Society: Advocating for Peace and Justice. Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2000.

Rieger, Joerg, ed. No Religion But Social Religion: Liberating Wesleyan Theology. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2018.

Schmidt, Jean Miller. “Reexamining the Public/Private Split: Reforming the Continent and Spreading Scriptural Holiness,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 14, 228-247.

–––––. Souls or The Social Order: The Two-Party System In American Protestantism. New York: Carlson, 1991.

Seifert, Harvey. What on Earth: Making Personal Decisions on Controversial Issues. Nashville: Discipleship Resources for Church and Society, 1986.

Schuneman, Randy. The Rediscovery and Reactivation of the Wesleyan Perspective of Social Action. Diss., Drew University, 1999.

Short, L. Faye, and Kathryn D. Kiser, ed. Reclaiming the Wesleyan Social Witness: Offering Christ. Franklin, TN: Providence House, 2008.

Stephens, Darryl W. “Face of Unity or Mask over Difference? The Social Principles in the Central Conferences of The United Methodist Church.” Thinking About Religion 5 (2005).

–––––. A Witness of Words: The United Methodist Social Principles as Moral Discourse and Institutional Practice. Diss., Emory University, 2006.

Stevens, Thelma. Legacy for the Future: History of Christian Social Relations in the Woman’s Division of Christian Service, 1940-1968. Cincinnati: General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1978.

Walsh, John D. “John Wesley and the Community of Goods.” In Protestant Evangelicalism: Britain, Ireland, Germany and America, 1750-1950: Essays in Honour of W. R. Ward, edited by Keith Robbins, 25-50. Studies in Church History, Subsidia 7. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.

Ward, Alfred Dudley. The Social Creed of The Methodist Church: A Living Document. Revised edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1965.

Wesley, John. “The Danger of Riches” (1781). Sermon 87 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 3:227-246.

–––––. “The Danger of Increasing Riches” (1790). Sermon 131 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 4: 177-186.

Wesley, John. “The Nature, Design, and General Rules of the United Societies” (1743).

–––––. “The Good Steward” (1768). Sermon 51 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 2:281-298.

–––––. “On Charity” (1784). Sermon 91 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 3:290-307.

–––––. “On Living Without God” (1790). Sermon 130 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 4: 168-176.

–––––. “The Reformation of Manners” (1763). Sermon 52 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 2:300-323.

–––––. “Thoughts upon the Present Scarcity of Provisions” (1773). In The Works of John Wesley, edited by Thomas Jackson, 11:53-59.

–––––. “The Use of Money” (1760). Sermon 50 in The Works of John Wesley (Bicentennial Edition), 2:263-282. Also in John Wesley, edited by Albert C. Outler, 238-250.

When the Church Speaks: A Guide to the Social Principles of The United Methodist Church. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 1996.

Wray, Harmon L., Peggy Hutchinson, and Brenda Connelly. Restorative Justice: Moving Beyond Punishment. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, 2002.

Spirituality

Baker, Frank, ed. The Heart of True Spirituality: John Wesley’s Own Choice. 2 vols. Grand Rapids, MI: Francis Asbury Press of Zondervan Publishing House, 1985-1986. Vol. 1: Selections from William Law; vol. 2: Selections from Thomas à Kempis, Pierre Poiret, Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, and Jacques Joseph Duguet.

Bondi, Roberta C. In Ordinary Time: Healing the Wounds of the Heart. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

–––––. Memories of God: Theological Reflections on a Life. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.

Bowyer, O. Richard, et al. Prayer in the Black Tradition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1986.

Buckwell, Brenda K. Spiritual Direction and the Metamorphosis of Church. Nashville, TN: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2020.

Chilcote, Paul Wesley. Early Methodist Spirituality: Selected Women’s Writings. Nashville: Kingswood, 2007.

Chilcote, Paul Wesley, and Elaine A. Heath, eds. Confession. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.

Clapper, Gregory Scott. As if the Heart Mattered: A Wesleyan Spirituality. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2014. Originally published in 1997.

Collins, Kenneth J., and John H. Tyson. Conversion in the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001.

Day, Albert E. Discipline and Discovery: Workbook Edition. Edited by Danny E. Morris. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1977.

Harkness, Georgia. Prayer and the Common Life. Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1948.

Harper, Steve. Devotional Life in the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1983.

—–. Life in Christ: The Core of Intentional Spirituality. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.

Hart, Elizabeth, comp. All Loves Excelling: Daily Meditations with Charles Wesley. Edited by Gerald Hobbs and Pauline Webb; Preface by Maurice Hart. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1997.

Heitzenrater, Richard P. “The Meditative Piety of the Oxford Methodists.” In Mirror and Memory: Reflections on Early Methodism, 78-105.

Hopwood, James A. Change of Heart: A Wesleyan Spirituality. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Kimbrough, Jr., S T. Orthodox and Wesleyan Spirituality. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002.

Job, Reuben P. A Guide to Retreat for All God’s Shepherds. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.

–––––. A Wesleyan Spirituality Reader. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1997.

Jones, David Ceri, Boyd Stanley Schlenther, and Eryn Mant White. The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press, 2012.

Khoo, Lorna Lock-Nah. Wesleyan Eucharistic Spirituality: Its Nature, Sources, and Future. Adelaide: ATF Press, 2005.

Maas, Robin. Crucified Love: The Practice of Christian Perfection. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.

Mack, Phyllis. Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

–––––. “Wesleyan Spirituality: Accountable Discipleship.” In Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church, edited by Robin Maas and Gabriel O’Donnell, O.P., 303-331. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

Matthews, Rex D. “John Wesley’s Idea of Christian Perfection Reconsidered.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 50, no. 2 (2015): 25-67.

Outler, Albert C. “Spirit and Spirituality in John Wesley.” Quarterly Review 8/2 (Summer 1988): 3-18.

Palmer, Phoebe. Phoebe Palmer: Selected Writings. Edited by Thomas C. Oden. New York: Paulist Press, 1987.

Roberts, Joseph A. The Spiritual Theology of John Wesley for Postmodern Culture. Diss., Fuller Theological Seminary, 2007.

Ruth, Lester, ed. Early Methodist Life and Spirituality: A Reader. Nashville, TN: Kingswood Books, 2005.

Saliers, Don E. Worship and Spirituality. Revised ed. Akron, OH: OSL Publications, 1996. First published in 1985.

_____. The Soul in Paraphrase: Prayer and the Religious Affections. Cleveland: Order of Saint Luke Publications, 1992.

Schmidt, Richard H. God Seekers: Twenty Centuries of Christian Spiritualities. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008.

Schneider, A. Gregory. The Way of the Cross Leads Home: Social Domestication of American Methodism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Steele, Richard B. “Heart Religion” in the Methodist Tradition and Related Movements. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.

Stewart, Carlyle Fielding, III. Soul Survivors: An African American Spirituality. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1997.

Trickett, David. “Spiritual Vision and Discipline in the Early Wesleyan Movement.” In Christian Spirituality: Post-Reformation and Modern, edited by Louis Dupré and Don E. Saliers, 354-371. New York: Crossroad, 1989.

Tyson, John R. Praying with the Wesleys: Foundations of Methodist Spirituality. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2019.

Vogel, Dwight. Food for Pilgrims: A Journey With Saint Luke. Akron, OH: OSL Publications, 1996.

Wakefield, Gordon, ed. The Fire of Love: The Spirituality of John Wesley. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1976.

–––––. Methodist Devotion: The Spiritual Life in the Methodist Tradition, 1791-1945. London: Epworth Press, 1966.

–––––. Methodist Spirituality. London: Epworth, 1999.

Ward, Patricia A. Experimental Theology in America: Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and Their Readers. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009.

Wesley, John. A Christian Library, Consisting of Extracts from and Abridgements of the Choicest Pieces of Practical Divinity which have been published in the English Tongue. 30 vols. London: T. Blanshard, 1819-1827. First published in 50 volumes, 1749-1755. Wesley’s prefaces only in The Works of John Wesley, edited by Thomas Jackson, 14:220-233.

–––––. “A Scheme of Self-Examination used by the First Methodists in Oxford.” In The Works of John Wesley, edited by Thomas Jackson, 11:521-523. Also in John and Charles Wesley, edited by Frank Whaling, 85-87.

Wesley, Susanna. Hearts Aflame: Prayers of Susanna, John and Charles Wesley. Edited by Michael D. McMullen. London: Triangle, 1995.

_____. Prayers and Meditations of Susanna Wesley. Edited by Michael D. McMullen. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 2000.

Wesleyan Spirituality in Contemporary Theological Education: A Consultation held October 17-19, 1987. Nashville: Division of Ordained Ministry, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, UMC, 1987.

Whaling, Frank, ed. John and Charles Wesley: Selected Prayers, Hymns, Journal Notes, Sermons, Letters, and Treatises. New York: Paulist Press. 1981. Classics of Western Spirituality.

365 Meditations for Families, by Sally D. Sharpe and Walter L. Kimbrough. Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 2001.

365 Meditations for Teens, by Sally D. Sharpe and Steve Broderson. Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 2000.

Ecumenical Prayer Cycle: “With God’s People.” Geneva: World Council of Churches. Annual guide to prayer in 52 weekly sections.

For All The Saints: A Calendar of Commemorations for United Methodists, edited by Clifton F. Guthrie. Akron, OH: Order of Saint Luke Publications, 1995.

A Guide to Prayer for All God’s People, by Reuben P. Job and Norman Shawchuck. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1990. Prayer companion to the Common Lectionary.

A Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants, by Reuben P. Job and Norman Shawchuck. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1983. Prayer companion to the Common Lectionary.

Liberation and Unity. Princeton, NJ: Consultation on Church Union.

Pellowe, Susan. A Wesley Family Book of Days. Chicago, IL: Renard Productions, 2002.

Prayer Calendar. Edited by Sheila Bruton. Cincinnati: Service Center, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC. Daily guidance in prayer for the work and workers of the GBGM, published annually.

The Upper Room Disciplines. Nashville: The Upper Room. Annual devotional manual.

The Upper Room: Daily Devotional Guide. Nashville: The Upper Room.

Wesley, Charles. The Christian Year with Charles Wesley: Being a Devotional Companion to the Book of Common Prayer, edited by John Lawson. London: Epworth, 1966.

Wesley, Charles and John Wesley. The Wesley’s Hymns and Poetry: A Daily Devotional. Edited by Donald E. Demaray. Anderson, IN: Bristol House, Ltd., 2003.

Wesley, John. “A Collection of Forms of Prayer for Every Day in the Week” (1733). In The Works of John Wesley, edited by Thomas Jackson, 11:203-259.

–––––. “A Collection of Prayers for Families” (1745). In The Works of John Wesley, edited by Thomas Jackson, 11:237-259.

–––––. The Daily Wesley: Excerpts For Every Day in the Year. Edited by Donald E. Demaray. Anderson, IN: Bristol House, Ltd., 1994.

–––––. Devotions and Prayers of John Wesley. Compiled and edited by Donald E. Demaray. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1977. Reprint of the 1957 edition.

Wesley, John. Wesley’s Forms of Prayer. Library of Methodist Classics. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 1992. Facsimile reprint of the 1738 edition.

Wesley, Susanna. The Prayers of Susanna Wesley. Edited and arranged by William L. Doughty. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1984. Reprint of the 1955 edition.

Women’s Studies

Africa

Attwell, Peggy. Take Our Hands: The Methodist Church of Southern Africa Women’s Auxiliary, 1916-1996. Cape Town: Methodist Church of Southern Africa Women’s Auxiliary, 1997.

Hinfelaar, Marja. Respectable and Responsible Women: Methodist and Roman Catholic Women’s Organizations in Harare, Zimbabwe, 1919-1985. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum, 2001.

Ngcobozi, Lihle. Mothers of the Nation: Manyano Women in South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Tafelberg, 2020.

Park, HiRho Y., and Cynthia A. Bond Hopson. Contextual Theology: Intersectionality of Gender, Race, and Class. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2020.

Theilen, Uta. Gender, Race, Power, and Religion: Women in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in Post-apartheid Society. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

Asia and the Pacific

Baker, Marcia. For Others with Love: A Story of Early Sisters and Methodist Deaconesses. Christchurch, New Zealand: Baker Family Publishing, 2007.

Champness, Beryl. The Servant Ministry: The Methodist Deaconess Order in Victoria and Tasmania. Melbourne: Uniting Church Press, 1996.

Kimbrough, Jr., S T. Sister Anna Eklund, 1867-1949: A Methodist Saint in Russia, Her Words and Witness, St. Petersburg, 1908-1931. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church, 2001.

Park, HiRho Y., and Cynthia A. Bond Hopson. Contextual Theology: Intersectionality of Gender, Race, and Class. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2020.

Europe

Brown, Earl Kent. Women in Mr. Wesley’s Methodism. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.

Broyles, Kathryn A. “Mothering, Catechesis, and Ecclesial Leadership: The Women of Early Methodism and Their Call to Witness to the Gospel of Christ.” Methodist History 46 (April 2008): 141-155.

Burge, Janet. Women Preachers in Community. Peterborough, UK: Foundery Press, 1996.

Chilcote, Paul Wesley. Early Methodist Spirituality: Selected Women’s Writings. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2007.

–––––. Her Own Story: Autobiographical Portraits of Early Methodist Women. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2001.

–––––. Fill My Heart with Love: 30 Days of Prayer with Methodist Women. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021.

–––––. John Wesley and the Women Preachers of Early Methodism. ATLA Monograph Series No. 25. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991.

–––––. The Methodist Defense of Women in Ministry: A Documentary History. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2017.

—–. She Offered Them Christ: The Legacy of Women Preachers in Early Methodism. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993.

Chilcote, Paul, and Ulrike Schuler, eds. Women Pioneers in Continental European Methodism, 1869-1939. London: Taylor & Francis, 2020.

Davies, Rupert E. Methodism and Ministry: The Ministry of Women and Men, Unity and the Future of Methodism. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1993.

Field-Bibb, Jacqueline. Women toward Priesthood: Ministerial Politics and Feminist Praxis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Fowler-Marchant, Donna L. Mothers in Israel: Methodist Beginnings Through the Eyes of Women. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2021.

Graham, E. Dorothy. Chosen by God: The Female Itinerants of Early Primitive Methodism. Birmingham: Diss., University of Birmingham, 1986.

–––––. Saved to Serve: The Story of the Wesley Deaconess Order, 1890-1978. Werrington: Methodist Publishing House, 2002.

Graham, E. Dorothy, and Verna E. Mossong. Women Local Preachers in the British Isles. New Zealand: Wesley Historical Society, 1999.

Harding, Alan. The Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion: A Sect in Action in Eighteenth-century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Johnson, Dale A. Women and Religion in Britain and Ireland: An Annotated Bibliography from the Reformation to 1993. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1995.

–––––. Women in English Religion, 1700-1925. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.

Kimbrough, S T. May She Have a Word with You?: Women as Models of How to Live in the Poems of Charles Wesley with Commentary. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019.

Kraft-Buchműller, Irene. Die Frauen in der Anfangszeit der Bischöflichen Methodistenkirche in Deutschland. Stuttgart: Chrlstliches Verlagshaus, 1992.

Leary, William. Wesley Guild: The First Hundred Years, 1896-1996. Liverpool: Printed by Mersey Mirror, Ltd., 1995.

Lloyd, Gareth. “Sarah Perrin (1721-1787): Early Methodist Exhorter.” Methodist History 41 (April 2003): 79-88.

–––––. Sources for Women’s Studies in the Methodist Archives. Manchester: Methodist Archives and Research Centre, John Rylands University Library, 1996.

Lloyd, Jennifer M. Women and the Shaping of British Methodism: Persistent Preachers, 1807-1907. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009.

Mack, Phyllis. Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Major, Emma. Madam Britannia: Women, Church, and Nation, 1712-1812. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Read, John. Catherine Booth: Laying the Theological Foundations of a Radical Movement. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2013.

Ryan, Linda A., Clive Murray Norris, and John Lenton, eds. Women, Preachers, Methodists. UK: Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, 2020.

Sohn-Kronthaler, Michaela, and Ruth Albrecht, eds. Faith and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Religious Communities. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2019.

Stanley, Susie Cunningham. Holy Boldness: Women Preachers’ Autobiographies and the Sanctified Self. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.

Tyson, John R. “A Poor, Vile Sinner’: Lady Huntingdon’s Vocabulary of Weakness and Deference.” Methodist History 37 (January 1999): 107-118.

Valenze, Deborah Mary. Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Virgoe, Norma, ed. Angels and Imprudent Women: Women in Methodism (Papers given at the 2005 Conference of The Wesley Historical Society). Loughborough, UK: Wesley Historical Society, 2007.

Wesley, Susanna. Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings. Edited by Charles Wallace, Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Wesley, Susanna. From a Mother’s Pen: Selections from the Spiritual Writing of Susanna Wesley. London: Methodist Publishing, 2019. Edited by Charles Wallace, Jr.

Winckles, Andrew O. Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writings and the Methodist Media Revolution: “Consider the Lord as Present as Ever.” Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.

North America

Auslander, Mark. The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Billings, Peggy. Speaking Out in the Public Space: An Account of the Section of Christian Social Relations, Women’s Division, the United Methodist Church, 1968-1984. New York: Mission Education and Cultivation Program Department, for the Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, 1995.

Blue, Ellen. St. Mark’s and the Social Gospel: Methodist Women and Civil Rights in New Orleans, 1895-1965. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2011.

_____. Women United for Change: 150 Years in Mission. New York: United Methodist Women, 2019.

Boggan Dreff, Ashley. Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality. Nashville: New Room Books, 2018.

_____. Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women’s Rights. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2020.

Born, Ethel W. By My Spirit: The Story of Methodist Protestant Women in Mission, 1879-1939. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1990.

–––––. From Memory to Hope: A Narrative History of the Areas of the World Federation of Methodist Women. Ferrum, VA: Ferrum College, 2000.

Boyer, J. Paige, Emily Peck-McClain, Shannon Sullivan, et al. Speaking Truth: Women Raising Their Voices in Prayer. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.

Brekus, Catherine A. Strangers & Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Campbell, Barbara E. United Methodist Women in the Middle of Tomorrow. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1975.

Carter, Ruth G. To a Higher Glory: The Growth and Development of Black Women organized for Mission in the Methodist Church, 1940-1968. [Cincinnati, OH]: The Division, Order from Service Center, 1980.

Cooney, Jonathan. “‘The Means of Doing Some Good’: The Methodist Female Relief Society of Boston, 1828-1868.” Methodist History 46 (January 2008): 114-123.

Craig, Judith. The Leading Women: Stories of the First Women Bishops of The United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004.

Current, Angella P. Breaking Barriers: An African American Family & the Methodist Story. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001.

Dodson, Jualynne E. Engendering Church: Women, Power, and the AME Church. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Dougherty, Mary Agnes Theresa. My Calling To Fulfill: Deaconesses In The United Methodist Tradition. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1997.

–––––. “The Social Gospel According to Phoebe: Methodist Deaconesses in the Metropolis,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 24, 356-370.

Edwards, Wendy J. Deichmann, and Carolyn De Swarte Gifford. Gender and the Social Gospel. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Fagan, Ann. This is our Song: Employed Women in the United Methodist Tradition. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1986. History of the Wesleyan Service Guild.

Franzen, Trisha. Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Gagan, Rosemary. A Sensitive Independence: Canadian Methodist Women Missionaries in Canada and the Orient, 1881-1925. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1992.

Garza, Minerva N. “The Influence of Methodism on Hispanic Women through Women’s Societies.” Methodist History 34 (January 1996): 78-89.

Gifford, Carolyn DeSwarte, ed. The American Deaconess Movement in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987. Includes Isabelle Horton’s The Burden of the City (1904) and The Early History of Deaconess Work and Training Schools for Women in American Methodism (1911), with introductory essay by Gifford.

–––––, ed. The Debate in the Methodist Episcopal Church Over Laity Rights for Women. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987. Includes essays by James M. Buckley, George W. Hughey, Alpha J. Kynett, and Willis Palmer, with introductory essay by Gifford.

–––––, ed. The Defense of Women’s Right to Ordination in the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: Garland Publishing, 1987. Includes Frances Willard’s Woman in the Pulpit (1889) and William F. Warren’s “The Dual Human Unit: The Relationship of Men and Women According to Sociological Teachings of Holy Scripture” (1894), with introductory essay by Gifford.

–––––. “‘For God and Home and Native Land’: The WCTU’s Image of Woman in the Late Nineteenth Century,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 20, 309-321.

Gillespie, Joanna Bowen. “The Emerging Voice of the Methodist Woman: The Ladies Repository, 1841-61,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 15, 248-264.

Gorrell, Donald K. “A New Impulse: Progress in Lay Leadership and Service by Women of The United Brethren in Christ and The Evangelical Association, 1870-1910,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 21, 322-331.

–––––, ed. Woman’s Rightful Place: Women in United Methodist History. Dayton, OH: United Theological Seminary, 1980. Investigates the Evangelical United Brethren experience.

Hale, Harry, Jr., Morton King, and Doris M. Jones. New Witnesses: United Methodist Clergywomen. Nashville: Division of Ordained Ministry, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, UMC, 1980.

Hardesty, Nancy A. Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: Revivalism and Feminism in the Age of Finney. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson, 1991.

–––––. Women Called to Witness: Evangelical Feminism in the 19th Century. 2nd Edition. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. Brief, popular version of Your Daughters Shall Prophesy above.

Hartley, Benjamin L. “Salvation and Sociology in the Methodist Episcopal Deaconess Movement.” Methodist History 40 (April 2002): 182-197.

Hartweg, Rhonda D. “All the Raptures: The Spirituality of Sarah Anderson Jones.” Methodist History 45 (April 2007): 166-179.

Heath, Elaine A. Naked Faith: The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2010.

Herb, Carol Marie. The Light Along the Way: A Living History through United Methodist Women’s Magazines. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1995.

Hill, Patricia R. The World Their Household: The American Woman’s Foreign Mission Movement and Cultural Transformation, 1870-1920. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1985.

The Holy Seed of Calling: Korean-American Clergywomen’s Journeys toward Ordination. S.l.: National Association of Korean-American United Methodist Clergy Women, 2010.

Hoover, Theressa. With Unveiled Face: Centennial Reflections on Women and Men in the Community of the Church. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1983.

Ikebuchi, Shelly D. From Slave Girls to Salvation: Gender, Race, and Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1923. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015.

Irons, Kendra Weddle. Preaching on the Plains: Methodist Women Preachers in Kansas, 1920-1956. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007.

Ives, Jane P. They Also Serve: Methodist and United Methodist Bishop Spouses, 1940-2018. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.

Keller, Rosemary Skinner. “Creating a Sphere for Women: The Methodist Episcopal Church, 1869-1906,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 22, 332-342.

–––––. et al., eds. Methodist Women, A World Sisterhood: A History of the World Federation of Methodist Women. [Cincinnati, OH]: World Federation of Methodist Women, 1986.

Keller, Rosemary Skinner, ed. Spirituality and Social Responsibility: Vocational Vision of Women in the United Methodist Tradition. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993.

Keller, Rosemary Skinner, Hilah F. Thomas, and Louise L. Queen, eds. Women in New Worlds: Historical Perspectives on the Wesleyan Tradition. 2 vols. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1981-82.

Kim, Ai Ra. Women Struggling For a New Life: The Role of Religion in the Cultural Passage from Korea to America. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Kim, Jung Ha. Bridge-Makers and Cross-Bearers: Korean American Women and the Church. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Knotts, Alice G. Fellowship of Love: Methodist Women Changing American Racial Attitudes, 1920-1968. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1996.

–––––. Lifting up Hope, Living out Justice: Methodist Women and the Social Gospel.  Frontrowliving Press, 2007.

Kreutziger, Sarah S. Going on to Perfection: The Contributions of the Wesleyan Doctrine of Entire Sanctification to the Value Base of American Professional Social Work through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Women Reformers. Diss., Tulane University, 1991.

Lakey, Othal H. God in My Mamma’s House: A Study of the Women’s Movement in the CME Church. Memphis, TN: CME Publishing House, 1994.

Lee, Jarena. Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, giving an account of her call to preach the Gospel. Philadelphia: Printed and published for the author, 1981.

Lee, Luther. Woman’s Right to Preach the Gospel. Syracuse, NY: J. E. Masters, 1852. Reprinted in Luther Lee, Five Sermons and a Tract. Edited by Donald W. Dayton. Chicago: Holrad House, 1975.

Lobody, Diane H. “‘That Language Might Be Given Me’: Women’s Experience in Early Methodism,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 8, 127-144.

McDowell, John Patrick. The Social Gospel in the South: The Woman’s Home Mission Movement in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1886-1939. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

McKay, Nellie Y. “Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s Spiritual Autobiographies: Religious Faith and Self-Empowerment,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 11, 178-191.

Miles, Rebekah. Georgia Harkness: The Remaking of a Liberal Theologian. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010.

Myers, Sarah Joyce. Southern Methodist Women Leaders and Church Missions, 1878-1910. Diss., Emory University, 1990.

Muir, Elizabeth, Petticoats in the Pulpit: The Story of Early Nineteenth Century Methodist Women Preachers in Upper Canada. Toronto: United Church Publishing House, 1991.

Oehler, Carolyn Henninger. The Journey Is Our Home: A History Of The General Commission On The Status And Role of Women. Evanston, IL: GCOSROW, 1996.

Palmer, Phoebe. The Promise of the Father; or, A Neglected Specialty of the Last Days. Salem, OH: Schmul Publishers, 1981. Reprint of the 1859 edition; also reprinted New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. A strong defense of women’s right to preach based on Joel 2:28.

Park, HiRho, and M. Kathryn Armistead. Nevertheless She Leads: Postcolonial Women’s Leadership in the Church. Nashville: Higher Education & Ministry, General Board of Education and Ministry, The United Methodist Church, 2020.

Pope-Levison, Priscilla. Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era. New York: New York University Press, 2014.

_____. Turn the Pulpit Loose: Two Centuries of American Women Evangelists. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Rader, Sharon Zimmerman, and Margaret Ann Crain. Women Bishops of The United Methodist Church: Extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2019.

Reber, Audrie. Women United in Mission: A History of the Woman’s Society of World Service of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, 1946-1968. Dayton, OH: Otterbein Press, 1969.

Roberts, Benjamin T. Ordaining Women. Indianapolis, IN: Light and Life Press, 1992. Reprint of the 1891 edition.

Rowe, Kenneth E. Methodist Women: A Guide to the Literature. Lake Junaluska, NC: General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church, 1980.

_____. “Ordination of Women, Round One: Anna Oliver and the Methodist General Conference of 1880.” Methodist History 12 (April 1974): 60-72. Reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 19, 298-308.

Schmidt, Jean Miller. Grace Sufficient: A History of Women in American Methodism, 1760-1939. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999.

Schmidt, Jean Miller, and Eunjoo Mary Kim. Women, Church, and Leadership: New Paradigms, Essays in Honor of Jean Miller Schmidt. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2012.

Seat, Karen K. “Providence has Freed Our Hands”: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008.

Selles, Johanna M. Methodists and Women’s Education in Ontario, 1836-1925. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996.

Shaver, Lisa J. Beyond the Pulpit: Women’s Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Smith, Gary Scott. Do All the Good You Can: How Faith Shaped Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Politics. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2023.

Sohl, Joyce D. Sing the Wondrous Love of Jesus: Women Hymn Writers and their Songs. s.l.: General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 2006.

Stanley, Susie C. Wesleyan/Holiness Women Clergy: A Preliminary Bibliography. Portland, OR: Western Evangelical Seminary, 1994.

Stevens, Thelma. Legacy for the Future: The History of Christian Social Relations in the Woman’s Division of Christian Service, 1940-1968. Cincinnati: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1978.

Ten Best Books on the History of United Methodist Women. New York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, 1999. CD-ROM

They Went Out Not Knowing: An Encyclopedia of One Hundred Women in Mission. s.l.: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church; Cincinnati, OH: Order from Service Center, General Board of Global Ministries, 1986.

Thompson, Patricia J. Courageous Past – Bold Future: The Journey toward Full Clergy Rights for Women in the United Methodist Church. Nashville: General Board of Higher Education and the Ministry, 2006.

To a Higher Glory: The Growth and Development of Black Women Organized for Mission in The Methodist Church, 1940-1968. Cincinnati: Board of Global Ministries, UMC, 1978.

Tolar Burton, Vicki. Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley’s Methodism: Reading, Writing, and Speaking to Believe. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2020.

Troxell, Barbara B. “Ordination of Women in the United Methodist Tradition.” Methodist History 37 (January 1999): 119-130.

Turner, Kristen D. A Guide to Materials on Women in the United Methodist Church Archives. Madison, NJ: The General Commission on Archives and History, UMC, 1995.

United Methodist Women. Handbook for United Methodist Women, 2013-2016. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 2013.

Warrick, Susan M., ed. Women in the Wesleyan and United Methodist Traditions: A Bibliography. Madison, NJ: General Commission on Archives and History, UMC, 2003. http://s3.amazonaws.com/gcah.org/UMC_History/Bibliographies/Bibliography.pdf

Whiteley, Marilyn Färdig. Canadian Methodist Women, 1766-1925: Marys, Marthas, Mothers in Israel. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.

Willard, Frances. Woman in the Pulpit. Boston: D. Lothrop Co., 1888. See Carolyn D. Gifford, Defense of Women’s Right to Ordination above.

Words that Hurt and Words that Heal: Language about God and People. Nashville: Graded Press, 1990. Leader’s guide plus full text of document prepared in 1988 by the United Methodist Task Force on Language Guidelines.

Worship

Service Books: Caribbean

The Prayer Book of The Methodist Church. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, on behalf of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas, 2003.

Service Books: England

Draft Services for Trial Use and Comment. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1994-96.

Responding to the Gospel: Prayer Handbook. London: Methodist Publishing, 2019.

The Methodist Service Book. Peterborough, UK: Methodist Publishing House, 1999.

Service Books: Germany

Feiern und Bekennen: Ordnungen, Gebete, und Bekenntnisse fur den Gottesdienst in der Evangelisch-methodistischen Kirche. Stuttgart: Christliches Verlagshaus, 1994.

Liturgie der Evangelisch-methodistischen Kirche

Service Books: Korea

Korean Methodist Church. The Korean Methodist New Book of Worship. Seoul: Korean Methodist Church Publishing House, 2011.

Service Books: United States

African Methodist Episcopal Church

The Book of Worship. Nashville: Dr. Johnny Barbour, Jr., 2005.

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Book of Worship. Charlotte, NC: A.M.E. Zion Publishing House, 1996.

Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Book of Ritual. Memphis, TN: Department of Publications, CMEC, 1995.

Church of the Nazarene

The Church Rituals Handbook. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 2009.

Free Methodist Church of North America

Pastors and Church Leaders Manual. Indianapolis: Light and Life Communications, 2006.

Global Methodist Church

Catechism of Christian Faith and Doctrine for the Global Methodist Church. Seedbed Publishing, 2023.

United Methodist Church

The Book of Offices and Service, The Order of Saint Luke. CreateSpace, 2013.

Chansong qwa yebae [Come, Let Us Worship: Book of United Methodist Worship]. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 2001. Songbook in Korean language for United Methodists.

The Daily Office, a Book of Hours for Daily Prayer. 6 vols. Edited by Dwight Vogel. Cleveland: Order of Saint Luke Publications, 1998. Vol. 1: For Advent through Season after Epiphany; Vol. 2: Lent and the Triduum; Vol. 3: For the Great Fifty Days (Easter through Pentecost); Vol. 4: For Ordinary Time after Pentecost; Vol. 5: For all the Saints, a Calendar of Commemorations for United Methodists; Vol. 6: The Daily Lectionary, a Guide for using the Scriptures within the Daily Office.

The Faith We Sing. Edited by Hoyt L. Hickman. Nashville: Methodist Publishing House, 2000.

Martinez, Joel N., and Raquel M. Martinez. Fiesta Cristiana: Recursos para la Adoración. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2003.

The New Handbook of the Christian Year. Edited by Hoyt C. Hickman, et al. Second edition. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992.

John Wesley’s Prayer Book: The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America, with introduction, notes and commentary by James F. White. Cleveland: Order of Saint Luke Publications, 1991.

Lift up Your Hearts: Eucharistic Prayers based on the Common Lectionary. Edited by Michael J. O’Donnell. 3 vols. Cleveland: OSL Publications, 1995-1997. The Prayers of Great Thanksgiving patterned after those found in The United Methodist Hymnal 1989, with segments based on the texts of the Common Lectionary, Year A, B and C.

Mil Voces Para Celebrar: Himnario Metodista. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 1996. Songbook in Spanish for United Methodists.

To Remember and Celebrate: Worship Resources For Heritage Events. Madison, NJ : General Commission on Archives and History, UMC, 1995. See also http://gcah.org/resources/heritage-sunday

The United Methodist Book of Worship. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 1992.

The United Methodist Hymnal: Book of United Methodist Worship. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 1989.

The United Methodist Music & Worship Planner, 2020-2021. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020.

The Upper Room Worshipbook: Music and Liturgies for Spiritual Formation. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 2006.

Voices: Native American Hymns and Worship Resources. Edited by Marilyn M. Hofstra. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1992.

Zion Still Sings: For Every Generation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.

Wesleyan Church

Wesleyan Pastor’s Manual. 5th ed. Indianapolis: Wesleyan Publishing House, 2012.

History and Commentary

Anderson, E. Byron. Worship Matters: A United Methodist Guide to Ways to Worship. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1999.

Arnold, Richard. Trinity of Discord: The Hymnal and Poetic Innovations of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper. New York: Peter Lang, 2012.

Bains, David R. The Liturgical Impulse in Mid-Twentieth Century American Mainline Protestantism. Diss., Harvard University, 1999.

Baker, Frank. Methodism and the Love Feast. London: Epworth Press, 1957.

Black, Kathy. Worship across Cultures. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.

Bradshaw, Paul F., and Lawrence A. Hoffman, eds. The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991. See Hoyt L. Hickman chapter “Worship Revision in the United Methodist Church.”

Bratt, James D. By the Vision of Another World: Worship in American History. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012.

Bruns, Steven David. Introduction to Christian Worship: Grammar, Theology & Practice. Nashville: Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2019.

Burdon, Adrian. The Preaching Service, the Glory of the Methodists: A Study of the Piety, Ethos and Development of the Methodist Preaching Service. Bramcote, England: Grove Books, 1991.

Chapman, David M. Born in Song: Methodist Worship in Britain. Warrington: Church in the Marketplace Publications, 2006.

Costen, Melva W. African American Christian Worship. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.

Cowan, Nelson Robert. Worship Any Time or Place: The Compact Book of Methodist Liturgies, Prayers, and Other Acts of Blessing. New York: Abingdon Press, 2024.

Davies, Horton. Worship and Theology in England, 6 vols in 3. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1996. See especially 3:143-209. Reprint of the 1961 edition, with additional volume on second half of the twentieth century.

Dixon, Neil. Wonder, Love and Praise: A Companion to The Methodist Worship Book. Peterborough, UK: Epworth Press, 2003.

Elkins, Heather M. “On Borrowed Time: The Christian Calendar in American Methodism, 1784-1960.” Diss., Drew University, 1991.

–––––. Worshiping Women: Re-Forming God’s People for Praise. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.

Fenner, Chris, and Brian G. Najapfour. Amazing Love! How Can it Be: Studies on Hymns by Charles Wesley. Foreword by David. W. Music. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2020.

Gonzales, Justo L., ed. Alabadle: Hispanic Christian Worship. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996. Chapter 4, “Worship in the Hispanic United Methodist Church” by Maria Luisa Santillan Baert, 57-72.

Harmon, Nolan B. The Rites and Ritual of Episcopal Methodism. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1995. Reprint of 1926 edition.

Hickman, Hoyt L. Worship Resources of the United Methodist Hymnal: Introduction to the General Services, Psalter and Other acts of Worship. Nashville : Abingdon Press, 1990.

–––––. Worshiping with United Methodists: A Guide for Pastors and Worship Leaders. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.

Kauflin, Bob. Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.

Kimbrough, Jr., S T. The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley: A Reader. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011.

_____. Orthodox and Wesleyan Scriptural Understanding and Practice. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2007. See George Mulrain chapter “The Impact of the Psalms on Worship within Methodism.”

_____. Singing Grace: European Methodist Songbook. Frankfurt am Main: Medienwerk der Evangelisch-Methodistischen Kirche, 2010.

_____. “Worship in Eighteenth Century Anglicanism and Methodism.” Proceedings of the Charles Wesley Society I (1994): 1-135.

Langford, Thomas. Transitions in Worship: Moving from Traditional to Contemporary. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999.

McClain, William B. Come Sunday: The Liturgy of Zion. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990.

Marquardt, Manfred, Dieter Sackmann, and David Tripp, editors. Theologie des Gotteslobs. Stuttgart: Christliches Verlagshaus, 1991.

Peiffer, Robert B. How Contemporary Liturgies Evolve: The Revision of United Methodist Liturgical Texts, 1968-1988. Diss., University of Notre Dame, 1993.

Phillips, L. Edward, and Sara Webb Phillips. In Spirit and Truth: United Methodist Worship for the Emerging Church. Revised edition. Akron, OH: OSL Publications, 2006.

Procter-Smith, Marjorie. The Church in Her House: A Feminist Emancipatory Prayer Book for Christian Communities. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2008.

_____. In Her Own Rite: Constructing Feminist Liturgical Tradition. Akron, OH: OSL Publications, 2000.

–––––. Praying With Our Eyes Open: Engendering Feminist Liturgical Prayer. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995.

_____. Women at Worship: Interpretations of North American Diversity. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993.

Ruth, Lester W. Early Methodist Life and Spirituality: A Reader. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2005. See chapter “Worship and Preaching.”

–––––. A Little Heaven Below: Worship at Early Methodist Quarterly Meetings. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2000.

Sanchez, Diana. The Hymns of the United Methodist Hymnal: Introduction to the Hymns, Canticles, and Acts of Worship. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.

Sigler, R. Matthew. Methodist Worship: Mediating the Wesleyan Liturgical Heritage. London: Routledge, 2018.

Stookey, Lawrence Hull. Calendar: Christ’s Time for the Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

Tanner, Carolyn K. Come! Come! Everybody Worship!: A Study Guide for Children on the United Methodist Basic Pattern of Worship. Akron, OH: OSL Publications, 2008.

Wade, William N. A History of Public Worship in the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from 1784 to 1905. Diss., University of Notre Dame, 1981.

Wainwright, Geoffrey, et al. Ecumenical Theology in Worship, Doctrine, and Life: Essays presented to Geoffrey Wainwright on his sixtieth birthday. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

–––––. Worship With One Accord: Where Liturgy and Ecumenism Embrace. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. American Methodist Worship. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

_____. “John Wesley’s Prayer Book Revision: The Text in Context.” Methodist History 34 (July 1996): 230-247.

_____. “Till Death Us Do Part”: The Rites of Marriage and Burial prepared by John Wesley and their Development in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Diss., University of Notre Dame, 1992.

_____. The Sunday Service of the Methodists: Twentieth-Century Worship in Worldwide Methodism, Studies in Honor of James F. White. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1996.

White, James F. Christian Worship in North America: A Retrospective, 1955-1995. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1997. See chapters “A Short History of American Service Books” and “Shaping the 1972 United Methodist Eucharist Rite.”

–––––. Introduction to Christian Worship. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000. Available in several languages

_____. Protestant Worship: Traditions in Transition. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1989. Chapter 9, “Methodist Worship,” reprinted in Perspectives on American Methodism, chapter 31, 460-479.

White, Susan J. Foundations of Christian Worship. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2006.

_____. Groundwork of Christian Worship. London: Epworth Press, 1997.

_____. A History of Women in Christian Worship. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 2003.

Young, Carlton R., and S T Kimbrough, Jr. Beams of Heaven: Hymns of Charles Albert Tindley. New York: General Board of Global Ministries, 2006.

_____. Music of the Heart: John & Charles Wesley on Music and Musicians: An Anthology. Carol Stream, IL: Hope Publishing Co., 1995.

_____. We Are One in Christ: New Tunes for the 21st Century. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.

Yrigoyen, Charles, John Galen McEllhenney, and Kenneth E. Rowe. Methodism at Forty: Looking Back, Looking Forward. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008. See chapter “Worship.”

Youth and Children’s Studies

Bebbington, David W., and Timothy Larsen. Modern Christianity and Cultural Aspirations. London; New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003. See John A. Hargreaves chapter, “Methodist Attitudes to Education and Youth: Halifax, 1800-2000.”

Blount, Emanuel Lee. The History of the Epworth League: A Concept of Youth in Nineteenth Century America. Diss., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1996.

Brummitt, Dan B. The Efficient Epworthian: Being the “Epworth League Methods. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2006. Reprint of 1922 edition.

Derr, Colleen. John Wesley and the Faith Formation of Children: Lessons for the Church. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2018.

Evans, Sara M. Journeys that Opened Up the World: Women, Christian Student Movements, and Social Justice, 1955-1975. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Gant, Jason. Youth Ministry. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008.

Guidelines Scouting & Civic Youth-Serving Ministry: Build Effective Scouting Ministry in Your Church. General Commission on United Methodist Men, 2016.

Hutchinson, Paul. The Story of the Epworth League. Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, 1927.

Joyner, F. Belton. Being Methodist in the Bible Belt: A Theological Survival Guide for Youth, Parents, and other confused Methodists. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008.

McKoy, Brandon. Youth Ministry from the Outside In: How Relationships and Stories Shape Identity. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2013.

Melton, Joy T. Safe Sanctuaries for Children and Youth: Reducing the Risk of Abuse in the Church. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 2004.

Pahl, Jon. Youth Ministry in Modern America: 1930 to the Present. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2000.

Ryan, Linda A. John Wesley and the Education of Children: Gender, Class, and Piety. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018.

Smith, J. Warren. “Youth Ministry in American Methodism’s Mission.” Methodist History 19 (July 1981): 224-230.

Thompson, Andrew C. Generation Rising: A Future with Hope for the United Methodist Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011.

White, David F., Sarah Frances Farmer, and Miroslav Volf. Joy: A Guide for Youth Ministry. Nashville: Yale University and Wesley’s Foundery Books, 2020.

Wimberly, Anne Streaty, Sandra L. Barnes, and Karma D. Johnson. Youth Ministry in the Black Church: Centered in Hope. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2013.