John Wesley
Larycia Hawkins and host Karen Wright Marsh recount the story of John Wesley, founder of Methodism.
As a young man, pious John Wesley declared the “absolute impossibility of being half a Christian.” Crushing failures humbled his grand ambitions-- yet prepared Wesley for a renewed faith, one energized by freedom, love and transformative action.
Guest Dr. Larycia Hawkins is an American scholar and speaker whose act of embodied solidarity became the subject of the award-winning documentary film Same God.
Dr. Hawkins is general faculty at the University of Virginia, where she teaches in the departments of politics and religious studies and serves in the Religion, Race, and Democracy Lab.
To learn more about Larycia Hawkins, Karen recommends:
John Wesley, a biography by Vivian H. H. Green
John Wesley and His World by John Pudney’s a good overview and introduction with pictures
John Wesley edited by Albert Outler, a selection of Wesley’s writings
“John Wesley” a profile in Christianity Today https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/denominationalfounders/john-wesley.html
“How John Wesley Changed America” https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/juneweb-only/6-16-53.0.html
And about Larycia Hawkins:
Same God the film, https://samegodfilm.com/, streaming on Amazon Prime Video & iTunes
“The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job,” New York Times Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/the-professor-wore-a-hijab-in-solidarity-then-lost-her-job.html
“Dear America” by Larycia Hawkins in Comment Magazine
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