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This is the complete collection of liturgies and acts of worship that have appeared on this site over the years plus a few more. It replaces a number of files scattered about on various pages. Classical Liturgy in a Wesleyan Tradition

This week, we witnessed what may have been the most consequential 24-hour stretch in Methodism of 2025. Here were Four important developments. Continue reading….

David F. Watson … “How do you know?” This is an epistemological question. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that explores how we know things. Questions about how we know what we know might seem simple at first, but when we really start to drill down into them, they can become quite complex. We know different things […]

Jeffrey Rickman … The notion of zombies didn’t necessarily exist in the mainstream of John Wesley’s world. He famously believed that his old house had been haunted by a ghost with my first name. I’m sure there were many other supernatural beliefs among the people of his day that I haven’t yet appreciated. But I […]

David F. Watson In the late-second century, someone got the smart idea to make fun of a Christian named Alexamenos. He or she scribbled a cartoon onto the plaster wall of a building on Rome’s Palatine Hill. The cartoon depicted Alexamenos worshiping a crucified man with the head of an ass. Its inscription read, “Alexamenos […]

by Chris Ritter I recently finished Doctrine, Spirit, and Discipline: A History of the Wesleyan Tradition in the United States by Kevin Watson (Zondervan Academic, 2024). This expansive, one-volume history sits atop an impressive body of earlier work by the Director of Academic Growth and Formation at Asbury Theological Seminary’s Tulsa campus. Watson’s earlier work […]

by Chris Ritter I recently finished Doctrine, Spirit, and Discipline: A History of the Wesleyan Tradition in the United States by Kevin Watson (Zondervan Academic, 2024). This expansive, one-volume history sits atop an impressive body of earlier work by the Director of Academic Growth and Formation at Asbury Theological Seminary’s Tulsa campus. Watson’s earlier work […]

Kevin M. Watson … What is Underground Seminary? There are some things that don’t fit in courses I teach, or perhaps even in the seminary curriculum at all, that people preparing to lead in the local church need to wrestle with, think about, or just have someone tell them. There are also conversations that I want […]

Jeffrey Rickman … How many people in the pews on an average Sunday are scripturally-recognizable Christians? Not many at all, argues John Wesley. This sermon is highly offensive to anyone who wants to believe that salvation is as simple as a confession of faith. It strikes to the heart those ‘carnal Christians’ who wish to […]

Kevin M. Watson … I do not often struggle to keep my composure, but this Sunday March 2 was very emotional for me.  I was blessed to return to Lamont, OK, for the first time in almost 17. I served as the pastor of the Methodist Church in Lamont from 2005-2008. In conversations with folks […]