Mothers in Israel: Beginnings Through the Eyes of Women

Reclaiming the stories of women who built early Methodism. From Methodism's earliest days, women were essential to the movement's growth and vitality, yet their stories have too often been forgotten or marginalized. Mothers in Israel recovers the remarkable legacy of eighteenth-century Methodist women who served as class leaders, preachers, devotional writers, teachers, and pastoral caregivers, earning the biblical designation "Mothers in Israel," a designation that harkens back to the bibl...