Silly Songs, Surprising Stories, and Supreme Court Justices: The Wild Fun-tier of Stone-Campbell Movement History by John Young

Church history can get into some very weighty matters very quickly. After all, when an author is diving into the good, bad, and ugly of human behavior, and then placing alongside those things considerations of religious faith and practice—always prime kindling for the fires of controversy in their own right—there will inevitably be plenty of serious stuff for the reader to think about. But church history can also be fun. The history of the Stone-Campbell, or Restoration, Movement contains no shortage of surprising plot twists, bizarre asides, unexpected ties to political developments, celebrity sightings, and even some good old-fashioned rumor- mongering. The author of this short volume had a lot of fun writing about these kinds of things, and he hopes you’ll have fun reading about them, too.