Talk:Wesleyan Church
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Removal of Illinois Wesleyan Despite the name, Illinois Wesleyan is actually affiliated with the United Methodist Church.--Benfergy 01:14, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] George McGovern?
Wasn't G. McGovern, former Presidential candidate, raised Wesleyan?
[edit] First Denomination to Ordain?
According to this site, The Wesleyan Church was the first to ordain a woman in America- yet I was taught that abolitionist Antoinette Brown was the first woman ordained in America. This is confirmed on Wikipedia also- by roughly a 4 year margin. Anyone know who can claim to be the first to ordain a woman- Congregationalists or Wesleyans? ~JdM
[edit] Fundamentalist, Mainline or Liberal?
Is the Wesleyan Church considered fundamentalist, Mainline or Liberal? How does it compare to other Methodist traditions?
As other pages seem to be orginized, it should be under "Beliefs"
- None of the above; as the article states, it can be categorized as evangelical and holiness. Pollinator 07:09, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge Wesleyan Methodists?
Should Wesleyan Methodists be merged with this article? Deco 03:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
- A redirect should do it. I'll fix that. Pollinator 04:48, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Position
It is unclear in the article if the position of the church in the splitting is pro-slavery or against it. Could someone make it more clear? WikiprojectOWU 06:52, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Anti-slavery. February 1, 1843, a convention was held which led to the creation of the Wesleyan-Methodist Connection; its Discipline was modified from the Methodist Episcopal Church to reflect, among other things, that owning of slaves was prohibited by its members and that the new church rejected any claim that it was ever right to own slaves. (An Outline History of The Wesleyan Church, 5th Edition, Lee Haines & Paul Thomas, (c)2000, Wesleyan Publishing House, pg 71-72) Rwsutler 02:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)rwsutler
[edit] Globalization: Wesleyan Church, Wesleyan Methodists, Wesleyan Methodist Church etc.
I'm removing the globalization tag. The article topic is a U.S. and Canadian denomination, that article is therefore going to be North America-centric. The problem, I think is with the redirects, specifically Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was the name of the primary strain of British Methodism that eventually became the Methodist Church of Great Britain. I'm going to repoint WMC to MCGB, but leave Wesleyan Methodists pointed here, as it could refer to either, and leave the disambig text at the top intact. VT hawkeyetalk to me 02:09, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
