When two branches of your family send you the same off-beat national news story—with convincing rationale and within an hour of each other—you’d better at least read it. I did more than that. I read ...

Methodism enjoyed widespread growth in America in the middle to late 1700s and 1800s because of its "circuit riders." Circuit riders, also called "saddlebag preachers," were a different kind of clergy ...

I love an old story that circulates in my family about my great-great grandfather, a fiery circuit-riding preacher named John Martin McBrayer. “The Reverend,” or just “Preacher,” as he was known, ...

On a blistering hot day, compounded by a howling wind that wouldn't quit, cowboy preacher Dan Boyd and his wife, Grace, rode slowly on horseback along the shoulder of U.S. Highway 310. On the road ...

BRISTOL, Va. – For seven years, Keith McGrew has led the Sunday services at three different Methodist churches every week. But Sunday, the pastor of Mary’s Chapel, Booher’s Chapel and Campground ...

In the 1860s, the almost lawless western frontier was not for the timid — which is why the Rev. Dr. William Goode, a circuit-riding Methodist-Episcopal preacher who came here in 1867, always had a ...

A two-year plan to travel as a circuit-riding preacher has turned into a longer journey, but for Dan Boyd it’s all part of a larger plan. Dubbing himself “the last circuit riding preacher,” Boyd was ...