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How has the United Methodist tradition evangelized to non-white persons via the Woman’s Home Missionary Society?
GUEST:
Alex Parrish is the Methodist Librarian at Drew University. His is currently a PhD Candidate at Garrett Evangelical School of Theology where his research focuses on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American Methodist missions.
HOST:
Dr. Ashley Boggan Dreff, General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church. Dreff earned her PhD from Drew Theological School’s Graduate Division of Religion, specializing in both Methodist/Wesleyan Studies and Women’s/Gender Studies. She is the author of Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women’s Rights (2020) and Entangled: A History of American Methodism, Politics, and Sexuality (2018).
CORRECTION: Mr. Parrish misspoke during the recording of this epsiode and said there had not been any Caribou in Alaska prior to their being brought from Russia. However that is not the case. Caribou existerd in much smaller in numbersand had not been domesticated until that point.