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The Methodists began as a reform movement within the Church of England. The movement’s key leader, John Wesley, began to organize the Methodists at Oxford in the 1730s with a group of students disparagingly called the “Holy Club.” Among these intense students were Wesley’s brother Charles, and George Whitefield, soon to become the greatest evangelist of the Great Awakening in Britain and America. John Wesley struggled to find assurance of salvation until a famous church meeting in London on May 24, 1738, when, as he wrote in his journal, “I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt tha...

web posted February 8, 2021 As we stumble into President Biden’s Dark Winter I want to speak to my fellow believers.  Don’t despair.  Don’t allow being out maneuvered in a partisan political process to crush your spirit.  Our God, the God of all creation, the God of Angel Armies has spoken to us and His Word shall forever be true.  Weeping may endure for an evening but joy comes in the morning.  When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.  A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; b...

Leah Fleming: This is Georgia Today. I'm Leah Fleming, in for Steve Fennessy. Over the last few months, we've seen a seismic shift in Georgia as the state helped Democrats capture the White House and the U.S. Senate. A majority of those in Georgia who voted for Joe Biden were Black and the state elected its first African-American U.S. senator. According to Census data analyzed by the Pew Research Center, the state's eligible voter population grew by about two million over a nearly 20-year period starting in 2000. Georgia is seeing more Black folks move to cities and towns, proving that the ...

To the Editor: I am an older white woman and as such have little credibility on Black issues. But I did read Charles Blow’s piece about reverse migration with interest. One of my questions is, Why should Black people not stay in New York and use the lessons learned in Georgia to increase their influence in politics and society? I worry that if reverse migration is successful, what will happen to places like Chicago, Oakland and New York? The African-American communities in those places will be left without support. Angela Johns To the Editor: Charles Blow’s piece launched me into a hopefu...

In January 1838, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered an address in Springfield, Ill., condemning a series of vigilante attacks that had recently taken place across the young republic. Just weeks before, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, ardent abolitionist and editor of the St. Louis Observer, was shot to death outside his warehouse in Alton, Ill., by a pro-slavery mob.   “Whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands,” Lincoln said, “and burn churches, ravage and rob provision-stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors...