These were the words of John Wesley, from a letter written in 1739. It was a time when what it meant to be the church was to serve the members of one’s own congregation – typically persons who lived ...
The life of John Wesley, whose tercentenary occurs this year, was celebrated by members of Norbury Methodist Church on Sunday. A large crowd, some dressed in 18th century costume, gathered at the park ...
Witnessing to the holy love of God was always in John Wesley's mind. Even in death. Here was a man who had preached more than 45,000 sermons, traveled (mostly on horseback) a distance equivalent to ...
If you had been a student at Oxford University in the early part of the eighteenth century, you probably would have been a swinger. The bars and the brothels would have been your habitat rather than ...