By Cricket Albertson, a slightly edited transcript of her speech given on February 8, 2024, at Hughes Auditorium for Asbury University’s Celebration of the 2023 Outpouring; used with permission At […]

  While I was born in New Jersey, from age two, I grew up in Kentucky in a conservative, Christian family. An emphasis was placed not only on attending church […]

By Joy Smith Griffin, FAS Board Member NOTE: This article was originally published in The High Calling, Jan/Feb 2023 issue. About four weeks into the semester, our women’s softball team […]

The Francis Asbury Society Board of Directors is happy to announce, after a national search, the election of Rev. Willis C. (Bill) Kierce as our next president. “We believe he […]

By Matt Friedeman, FAS Board member I came from a great Christian family with involved Methodist parents. Their church, however, suffered from disappointing leadership in my youth. One day, I […]

“Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem” (Luke […]

“This is what the Lord says: ‘Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will […]

History is not merely the recitation of names and dates. If we are to learn from history, it must be interpreted. Dr. Spann is a historian who was trained by […]

by Rev. Larry Leckrone, Evangelist Several years ago, I was visiting a friend in Ohio who owned a local newspaper. On his wall hung a sign which read, “Advertising Doesn’t […]

“My dear children, I travailed in the child-pangs of birth so that Christ may be formed in you” (Galatians 4:19). The Francis Asbury Society is a group of people who […]