Russell E. Richey

Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition

“Engaging, readable, creative, insightful, and instructive probing of the array of today's medical and health-related issues--some now highly controversial--and of Methodism's struggle to find balanced commitments and policy. Brooks Holifield finds John Wesley and his daughters and sons to have lived with only partially formulated dialectical or balanced counsel. He educates Methodists (and others) on what they believe.”

Nature’s Final Curtain Call?

Arts & Literature

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

No Shame in Wesley’s Gospel

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Engaging and exegeting key sermons and treatises by John Wesley, Edward Wimberly translates Wesley's therapeutic message of saving grace, praxis of supportive small groups, and narrative modalities of proclamation--Good News for the guilt-oriented eighteenth century--into redemptive counsel for the twenty-first century, where brokenness, isolation, and feelings of being unloved yield shame, not guilt and find expression in status anxiety, the commodification of human life, and narcissistic or self-absorbed identity.”

Respectable Methodism

History & Biography

Foreword

“Revisiting but reinterpreting the pivotal role of Nathan Bangs in Methodism’s migration into the middle class, this engaging, readable study revises our assessment of Methodism and of nineteenth-century American Protestantism as a whole.”

Spirit-Filled Protestantism

History & Biography

“A profitable, engaging, readable, and well-researched tour through the American holiness world, tracking the holiness/Pentecostal witness to India and thence to the Philippines. Filipino Methodism, Luther Oconer shows, was shaped and continues to be leavened by the culto Pentecostal. A must read for Methodists and especially United Methodists.”

The Struggle to Believe

Arts & Literature

“S T Kimbrough brings his truly diverse talents and interests into poems which probe our daily concerns, worries, and doubts and provide us with psalm-like redemptive verse. His and William Lawrence’s introductions guide readers onto pathways through and out of our personal and social traumas.”

When the Church Woke

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Engaging and challenging, easily read and scholarly, up-to-date and biblically-historically grounded, attentive to present theological/ecclesial disputes and offering redemptive ways forward, well-documented and terse, enlivened with down-to-the-ground episodes and comprehensive in scope, focused on American Methodism but providing counsel pertinent across Protestantism, When the Church Woke challenges readers to face societal, relational, and family matters that have bedeviled and continue to plague us.”