Methodists

Cultural  

1. A Protestant denomination founded by the English clergyman John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in the eighteenth century. Methodists are generally flexible in doctrine and in church organization, and stress the social responsibility of Christians (see also Christian). Next to the Baptists, Methodists are the most numerous group of Protestants in the United States.

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Example Sentences

Pacific Palisades, founded by Methodists, was a “Christian community” with modern amenities “where the mountains met the coast.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2025

Nora Mathison: Syracuse University had been founded just three years earlier, in 1870, by forward thinking Methodists.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

The Rev Turtle told the programme he was "very conscious" of the falling numbers of Methodists within Ireland, despite the movement's continued expansion worldwide.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2023

In a letter to United Methodists in the Western North Carolina Conference, Bishop Ken Carter said he hoped to provide support and love to churches that want out.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

“It started as a one-room grade school for freed slaves, founded by Methodists from the North.”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson