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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Educated at Oxford and ordained in 1728, Wesley led the "Holy Club" before an unsuccessful two-year ministry in Savannah, Georgia sent him back to London. On 24 May 1738, he experienced what he called his evangelical conversion among Moravian Christians, then broke away to start his own work. Barred from many parish pulpits, he began traveling and preaching outdoors, organizing small groups with intensive personal accountability and appointing itinerant evangelists — including women — to lead them. He argued against Calvinism and for Christian perfection: the belief that in this life a believer could reach a state where the love of God "reigned supreme in their hearts." Under his direction, Methodists took up the abolition of slavery and other social causes. By his death in 1791, the man once persecuted was called "the best-loved man in England," and the societies he founded had become the independent Methodist movement.