A Wesleyan Vision for Holiness of Heart and Life

With the new year underway, I want to share with you about new opportunities, resources, and news from the John Wesley Institute. We have a number of projects underway and opportunities for formation. As ever, our goal is to equip the laity and that is precisly what we’re doing.

The first thing I want to highlight is the publication of our newest resource, To Spread Scriptural Holiness. I received author copies this week and the volume will be available for purchase later this month. This new book, a companion volume to The Faith Once Delivered, is lay-oriented and clearly lays out a Wesleyan vision for holiness of heart and life; sin doesn’t have the final word in our lives, but God’s transforming love does.

To Spread Scriptural Holiness was written by almost 70 scholars from 15 different denominations! And it’s an amazing resource. I can’t wait for you to see it and to be blessed by it.

Secondly, I’m happy to share with you that the deadline to sign up for our trip to England, May 29-June 7, 2026, has been extended to the end of the month. This trip will focus on sites associated with the 18th c. Evangelical Revival, and in particular sites associated with John and Charles Wesley. We will visit cathedrals, colleges, churches, and outdoor preaching sites associated with the Methodist Revival. It will be a time of learning, fellowship, and worship.

For more information, see the trip website here.

Finally, an update on Good News magazine. Over the last year, we have been honored to publish the magazine and give it as a gift to donors. Good News has been a mainstay of evangelical Methodism for decades! 

Due to the enormous costs of publishing the magazine, we have decided to transition Good News to an online format. The articles that you love, geared toward formation in the Christian life, will continue and as an online resource will be more accessible than ever.

As we make this transition, look for articles to start coming out sometime next month.

Thank you for all the support you’ve shown the JWI as we continue in our mission to offer formational resources for the broad Wesleyan world. 

P.S. The John Wesley Institute is thrilled to host the Next Methodism Summit III this week in Alexandria, Virginia. Nearly 50 scholars and church leaders from across the Wesleyan world will be here to produce a third volume in our formational series, this time looking at Scripture. I will have more updates for you on this next week, but please be in prayer for a successful Summit! I want to thank our sponsoring partners: The Salvation Army, Asbury Theological Seminary, and Wesley Biblical Seminary.

Ryan N. Danker is director of the John Wesley Institute, Washington, DC. This is reposted from a weekly JWI newsletter that you can subscribe to here.