Some of you may be aware that I have been writing a book over the past several months. In some ways, this began four years ago when I traveled with a group of pilgrims to England as part of Discipleship Ministries' Wesley pilgrimage, aided by my sabbatical research the following year and all the voracious reading I've done since. Thankfully, the pandemic allowed me space and time to really work on it, and I'm pleased to announce that the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church will be publishing Mothers in Israel: Methodist Beginnings through the Eyes of Women in December 2020.
I recently had the opportunity to lead a webinar based on some of my research for the book. Sponsored by the Center for Leadership Excellence of the North Carolina Annual Conference, this gave me a chance to share some of the stories I encountered along the way, accounts of women who preached the gospel and exercised leadership within Methodism from the very beginning. If you'd like to know more, you can watch the webinar by clicking the link below. I hope it will whet your appetite to learn some of the stories of women like Susanna Wesley, Mary Bosanquet, Sarah Crosby, and Sarah Ryan as we gain a deeper understanding of their legacy and a fuller picture of the story of the people called Methodists.
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