Talk:Methodist Episcopal Church

Church History Timeline
Would a timeline of the M.E. Church history be of help of interest? I received one today from the Archives of Ohio United Methodism, located on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio while gathering information from primary source material. user: stude62 user talk:stude62 01:26, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This article is missing info on when the M.E. split from the Anglicans. Anyone know? --65.91.102.204 23:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Church in Topeka
There is an old M.E. church in Topeka, Kansas The name on the cornerstone is Trinity M.E. Church 1888-1919. It is unique in the fact that the architecture around the top of the building sports upside down crosses. Would anyone know anything about this church, and why they built the upside down crosses? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.180.117.224 (talk) 21:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

EUB church
The history of the EUB church before the merger also coincided with the Methodist history. the Evangelical church started and the Evangelical Association by Jacob Albright. Likewise the United Brethren Church was started by Phillip Otterbein. Both of these congregations were German speaking people. They wanted originally to be part of the Methodist church but were told they weren’t welcome if they were going to have services in German so they each started their own church and held their German services. The doctrines of these churches were almost identical. They merged about 1940 to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church and were eventually accepted into Methodism in 1968. Since the merger into The United Methodist Church the original Methodist Conference has made a practice of dropping “United” from the title whenever possible, thus obscuring the origins of the EUB in the merger. Thomas R. Wright - AdmiralTRW@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.131.112.18 (talk) 19:52, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

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Holiness Movement
I feel that the Holiness movement section of this article could be expanded slightly. The Church of the Nazarene is the most well-known and largest of the Holiness denominations, but it is not the only one. The Methodist Episcopal Church was the origin of dozens of other smaller denominations including those as large as The Wesleyan Church or the Free Methodist Church. The movement of course has its own page, but I feel that listing some other churches would more accurately describe the movement. --Littledj95 (talk) 18:23, 4 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I've been working on this article a lot, but my summer is ending soon so I probably won't be making any more additions for awhile. However, I do plan to eventually get to that section, unless you just want to go ahead and try to improve it yourself. That would be great too! There is a lot of great stuff that can be done in this section. I plan to look at what the Holiness movement taught and how people in the MEC (both grassroots and leadership) reacted to it at various times and, ultimately, why the holiness movement was eventually forced out of the MEC. Ltwin (talk) 03:20, 5 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I need to do something productive with my summer before school starts and I certainly enjoy looking through wikipedia pages on denominations. What would you recommend for this section?  Would it be better to mention a few denominations specifically that came about from the movement or talk more about the beliefs that warranted the split? --Littledj95 (talk) 03:38, 6 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I think we can do both. We can discuss the origins of the movement in the MEC (Phoebe Palmer and such) and how it was initially received within the MEC and its beliefs (how it was similar and different from traditional and contemporary Methodist belief). Then we can discuss how the movement grew beyond the MEC.
 * I don't think we have to do this all in one section. It may be better for the flow of the article to treat these as they occur, so the origins of the movement might be discussed earlier and then the later developments in a later section. I don't know, since I haven't done enough preliminary reading on the holiness movement to really make an informed decision about what would be best. But I do know that Phoebe Palmer started her prayer meetings before the Civil War, so we probably need to move mention of the origins of the holiness movement up in the article. The section's current placement gives the impression that the holiness movement was a post-war development which seems to be misleading. Ltwin (talk) 05:20, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think we have to do this all in one section. It may be better for the flow of the article to treat these as they occur, so the origins of the movement might be discussed earlier and then the later developments in a later section. I don't know, since I haven't done enough preliminary reading on the holiness movement to really make an informed decision about what would be best. But I do know that Phoebe Palmer started her prayer meetings before the Civil War, so we probably need to move mention of the origins of the holiness movement up in the article. The section's current placement gives the impression that the holiness movement was a post-war development which seems to be misleading. Ltwin (talk) 05:20, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

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Global Methodist Church
May 1, 2022 the Global Methodist Church was founded as an outgrowth of The Confessing Movement within the United Methodist Church. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Methodist_Church 2604:B080:8380:5500:38E2:EDE1:7601:2C02 (talk) 16:10, 19 June 2024 (UTC)