Methodist Nature: Holy First, Compassionate Second


JEFFREY RICKMAN

… Deep down in Methodism’s bones is a concern for the plight of the less fortunate. Going back to the beginnings of the movement, in the days of those idealistic Oxford men in the “holy club,” John Wesley was known to regularly facilitate ministry to those in jail or otherwise in poverty. It was recalled that on a cold winter’s night, the man was known to go around collecting blankets and distributing them to the local poor, his feet wet and freezing having stepped in frozen puddles along the way. <a href="http://<div class="substack-post-embed"><p lang="en">Methodist Nature: Holy First, Compassionate Second by Jeffrey Rickman</p><p>A check on the social justice inclination</p><a data-post-link href="https://jeffreyrickman.substack.com/p/methodist-nature-holy-first-compassionate">Read on Substack</a></div><script async src="https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js&quot; charset="utf-8">Continue Reading….