F. Belton Joyner Jr. is a retired United Methodist pastor who teaches courses in Methodist history and Wesleyan Theology at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. He sits on the Judicial Council, the United Methodist Church's "Supreme Court," which interprets church law and determines constitutionality of proceedings at all levels of church life. In addition to writing "United Methodist Questions, United Methodist Answers", Joyner is the author of "Being United Methodist in the Bible Belt", also available from Westminster John Knox Press.