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

Catholics overtook Methodists as the largest denomination in the nation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 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

Nigerian Methodists in December celebrated 100 years of the denomination in their country, but its future remains uncertain.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

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

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

Miss Effie Belle could hear them singing when she got home from playing for the Methodists, and what she heard wasn’t “Holy Spirit, Truth Divine.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns