Methodist Library Links
Helpful UMC Links
- United Methodist Church. Official UMC web page
- History of the United Methodist Church. A timeline of important events in United Methodism and its predecessor denominations.
- General Conference 2008, 2004, 2000, and 1996
- UMC.org Directory. How to quickly find agencies, local churches, bishops, and just about anything else you ever wanted to know about modern United Methodism.
- UMC Links. A collection of links to general boards and agencies, annual and jursidictional conferences, UMC publications, and other resources.
- UMC Schools. Links to websites and info on UM schools, colleges/universities, and seminaries.
- UMNS. United Methodist News Service (press releases). Keyword-searchable press releases from 1991-2001 available online here.
- General Commission on Archives and History
- The Upper Room
- Worship Resources. Worship resources from the Board of Discipleship for many occasions including many Wesley resources.
- United Methodist Reporter, newspaper of United Methodism
- Quarterly Review, the theological journal of the UMC
- Circuit Rider, professional magazine for those in ministry
- Guide to the Historical Landmarks of the UMC
Worldwide Methodism
- World Methodist Council official site
- A World Methodist Council site hosted by the WMC’s World Evangelism division
- Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies (international membership; holds conferences every 3-5 years)
Other Methodist Collections
Other libraries with Methodist-related collections:
- British Methodist Research Centre at Rylands University in Manchester
- Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History in Oxford
- Methodist Studies Center at Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University
- Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative website of the American Theological Library Association. A good source for images of the Wesleys and their era, digitized from the collections at Bridwell Library, SMU.
- Duke University’s Rubinstein Library Methodism and Wesleyana collections
- Historical Society of Ocean Grove, New Jersey
- Wesley Center at Northwest Nazarene University
- Flower Pentecostal Research Center
- The Documenting the American South project at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, rich in African-American Methodist resources
- Wesleyan Center for 21st-Century Studies at Point Loma Nazarene University
- Centre for Wesleyan Studies, Methodist University at Sao Paulo
- Duke’s Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition
Online Bibliographies
- A set of helpful bibliographies regarding the holiness movement developed by the Nazarene Church archives
- Dr. Suzanne Selinger’s bibliography of the works of Kenneth Rowe, our Methodist Librarian emeritus and premier historian/ bibliographer of the Methodist movement
- General Commission on Archives and History’s bibliography on women in the Wesleyan and United Methodist traditions
- Exhaustive bibliography of works on Wesleyan and holiness women clergy compiled by Dr. Susie Stanley of Messiah College
- Select bibliography of sources on the Evangelical United Brethren heritage by the Center for the EUB Heritage at United Theological Seminary
- Resources on Pentecostalism developed by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Sister Denominations
Web pages of some of our sister denominations who also look to John Wesley as their founder:
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
- Free Methodist Church
- Methodist Church–Great Britain
- Methodist Church in Ireland
- Methodist Church of New Zealand
- Nazarene Church
- Primitive Methodist Church–United States
- Wesleyan Church
Societies Studying Wesley and Methodism
Some academic and denominational societies devoted to the study of Methodism, Wesley, and related issues:
- Wesleyan Theological Society. Back issues of their journal are online here.
- Wesley Historical Society (Great Britain)
- Historical Society of the United Methodist Church
- World Methodist Historical Society
- Society for Pentecostal Studies
- Wesleyan/Holiness Women Clergy
- Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals
Online Full-Text Sources
- John Wesley: Selected Works
- John Wesley’s Sermons
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library selection of Wesley texts
- The NetHymnal has many Charles Wesley texts
- The General Board of Global Ministries site on the Wesleys includes many e-texts of John, Charles, and Susanna
- Making of America, “a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction,” which has a long run of the Ladies’ Repository and many Methodist books. Go directly to the Ladies’ Repository listing here.
- Wesley Center for Applied Theology: Texts of John Wesley, Charles Wesley, John Fletcher, Jacob Arminius, Richard Watson, John Telford, and numerous holiness movement authors
- World Wide School has posted the full texts of the biographies of Anna Howard Shaw and Sojourner Truth
- Archive of the New Orleans Christian Advocate (Newspaper)
- Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity via Yale Divinity School
History of the Wesleys and Methodism
- BBC site on the life of John Wesley
- The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, an exhibit hosted by the Library of Congress, including resources for African-American religion
- Religion & the Founding of the American Republic, another Library of Congress exhibit with many pictures of Methodist events and leaders
- Listing of Wesley’s preachers, 1740-1791
- Wesley’s Chapel, London, England