Darrell J. Wesley

Biography

Darrell J. Wesley has served as senior pastor of Redlands First United Methodist in Redlands, California. Wesley previously served as university chaplain and ethics professor at Naval Postgraduate in Monterey, California, and as dean of the Leadership Training School for the Ninth Episcopal District of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Wesley earned a PhD at Claremont Graduate University and graduate degrees from Yale University and the Naval War College. Wesley wrote Toward a Postmodern Ethic of Radical Freedom (2023) and wrote the foreword to They Call Me Trusty (2025).