Why do Methodists use Welch's grape juice for communion? What does a famous mountain in Zimbabwe have to do with The UMC's formation in that African nation? What U.S. church predates the famous Christmas Conference in 1784 that launched the American Methodists? Explore these questions and more as we examine the roots of The United Methodist Church (and its predecessor denominations) to understand why The UMC is the way that it is...and where it might be going.
Dr. Ashley Boggan, general secretary for the General Commission on Archives and History, hosts the "Un-Tied Methodism" podcast. Join us to unravel our past to make sense of today.
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"Breaking the stained-glass ceiling: How women earned their place in the United Methodist episcopacy"
Following the landmark 1956 decision granting women full clergy rights, the movement that led to the election of the first women bishops gained momentum.
In this episode of "Un-Tied Methodism," Dr. Ashley Boggan and the Rev. Dr. Emily Nelms Chastain discuss the leadership of Jean Audrey Powers and others, including the networks of women who persisted and strategized to help reshape The United Methodist Church and the wider landscape of women's leadership in American Christianity.