Comments | carolynsinger: Methodist social experiments: 1729-2009

carolynsinger

Methodist social experiments: 1729-2009

Jan 09, 2009 09:16

Methodism began as a social experiment in a college dorm room, and as they say, the last 280 years are history. In the Methodist experimental spirit, Blake Huggins, my classmate at the STH and fellow blogger, has passed this on to me. Kevin Watson is another Methodist blogger [Deeply Committed] who started an experiment to see how much social ( Read more... )

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suela_602 January 15 2009, 01:25:07 UTC

It's really sad that there are UMs who don't even know who John Wesley was. I think they even made reference to him in an X-Men cartoon for crying out loud (I'll see if I can find the clip)!

But I also don't understand how people can't understand the different between Austria and Australia. More children left behind, I guess.

suela_602 January 15 2009, 01:32:43 UTC

And I found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVj39qzwkD0

It's just over 6 minutes into the video. It makes me smile every time. :-)

carolynsinger January 15 2009, 04:57:19 UTC

omg YES. I want to cry when I meet UMists who hold opinions totally counter to Wesleyan theology.

suela_602 January 15 2009, 13:53:12 UTC

I think they should teach Wesleyan theology along with Bible stuff in Sunday school or something. "Multitask," if you will. Maybe that would be a good way to get it out there because I don't ever remember discussing John Wesley at all in church, just at home. Although the minister at UMCB does a good job of working Wesleyan stuff into his sermons, that makes me happy. :-)