The Rev. Dr. Craig Hill devotes a tremendous amount of time and energy to Wesley Ministry Network, a video-based lay-education program the seminary offers as resource for churches. Hill, a professor of New Testament at Wesley, is director of this program that has reached an estimated 70,000 people across the country and around the world in less than four years.

"As Christians, we must be able to answer hard questions about the practice of the faith for ourselves and for those we meet," he says. "Through Wesley Ministry Network, we are equipping the people of the church to think through the complex questions."

Hill is excited about the potential for this program to transform the way Christians live their faith in the world. "This program is special because it's neither narrowly fundamentalist nor wildly revisionist, and we're making the best teachers of the faith available to everyone," he says. "A lot of people are hungry for educational resources that take seriously both the Christian tradition and the modern world."

Wesley Ministry Network continues to produce new courses that make profound scholarship accessible to the church. The seventh and most recent course is based on the work of Larry Hurtado of Edinburgh University, author of the acclaimed Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Says Hill, "This book is much more sensible and historically grounded than the great majority of what is written about the rise of Christianity. I was very eager to see it translated into a series of video lessons accessible to non-scholars."

The next course, to be released in early summer 2008, is Religion and Science: Pathways to Truth. Francis S. Collins, director of the U. S. Government's Human Genome Project and author of the best-selling book The Language of God hosts this groundbreaking series that explores how religion and science might coexist and even complement one another. Sixteen other leading scientists and theologians contributed to this exciting series.

Wesley Ministry Network is also developing courses on Methodist History, Doctrine and Evangelism that feature fifty of the world's leading Wesleyan scholars from eleven countries.