Kenneth M. Loyer is author of Holy Communion: Celebrating God with Us and pastor of Otterbein United Methodist Church of Spry, York, Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Theology from Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas where he was a winner of a number of prestigious awards including the John Wesley Fellowship and Dempster Fellowship. He has an M.Div. from Duke and is an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church and a member of the World Methodist Council. He is an assistant editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies and teaches Theology and Methodist Studies as an adjunct professor at United and Wesley Theological Seminaries, and a contributor to the A Wesleyan Accent blog. He lives in York, Pennsylvania.