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Orac, you sayNo time to read, eh! OK then, will you take 7 minutes and listen to the following?. Let me know if you understand what is said in the following summary of the history of Methodism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idm5-RkUo5U&list=PLCC68DE2F385D375C&index=4

How come you are so interested in Methodism?
BTW, is there a Methodist church near where you live in the USA?

Things you may not know my connection with Methodism:
I did my BA (4 years) at www.mta.ca It is a Methodist-based university with a good reputation. It is in New Brunswick, just north of Nova Scotia.

Then, I did three years, in a United Church seminary, in Halifax, NS. http://www.astheology.ns.ca/welcome.html It had a Presbyterian background, but very open-minded.

Later, I did two years--post graduate studies--at the great Boston University School of Theology-- http://www.bu.edu/sth/ --a wonderful school. Martin Luther King was a student there, at the same time. There, I focused on THE HISTORY OF IDEAS.

I assume you know that John Wesley--with the help of his mother, Susanna, and family--was the founder of Methodism.

He--one of 19 children--was born in 1703. Here is his story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley

The first Methodists in England were just ordinary members of the Anglican Church--members of a group within the church of England (Anglican).

ABOUT METHODISM IN NEWFOUNDLAND--where I was born, and the first colony of England

The first Methodist to visit North America was Laurence Coughlan. He came to Carbonear, Conception Bay, NL. It is one of the oldest places in North America, not far from the ancestral home of the King/Kelloway family.
http://www.carbonear.ca/thistory.htm

ABOUT THE FIRST METHODISTS IN NORTH AMERICA--Interesting!
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/coughlan_laurence_4E.html