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Methodists

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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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The mainline is a collection of long-established Protestant denominations: the Episcopalians, United Methodists, Presbyterians and so on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

Bickerton said it’s time for United Methodists remaining in the denomination to refocus their work.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

The Flournoys having long since returned to the Methodists, it was just the two of them.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns