When Wesleyan ideas are put to the test, the theory makes for good logic and even better practice than Calvinism. Read Brian LePort’s review of Calvin vs. Wesley, a recent book which generously compares these two compelling, and in some ways, competing traditions.
Brian Leport, who grew up Pentecostal and now finds himself at home in the Methodist Church, shares about his pilgrimage to the first Methodist building in the world—the New Room chapel. Apparently this room, where John and Charles lived and preached for many years of the Wesleyan revival, still has the power to inspire powerful gospel ministry.
Brian LePort offers a book review of “Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era,” a work for anyone interested in gender studies as well as the development of Christianity in the United States. This is truly a “history from below” telling the story of those that would be forgotten if society’s sexist inclinations were to be embraced.
