
Disciples History Moment
For January 19, 2025
Disciples (Stone-Campbell Movement) have had their share of famous and not-so-famous (and downright bad) people. None of us as humans are one dimensional—all good or all bad. So the Disciples have had their share of famous and not–so-famous members and some who are just familiar names.
I have named some of the “famous” Disciples over the course of this past year. Some of them are:
Restoration Movement Leaders: Alexander & Thomas Campbell, Barton Stone, and Walter Scott
Presidents: James Garfield, Ronald Reagan, and Lyndon Johnson
Janis Joplin (in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
Some others are:
Actors: Francis McDormand (who won and Oscar as the cop lady in the movie “Fargo”). Also, the couple Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen.
Millard Fuller, the founder and former president of Habitat for Humanity International.
Colonel Sanders (as in Kentucky Fried Chicken)
General Lew Wallace, Union General and author of Ben-Hur
Andy Beshear, current Governor of Kentucky
General Omar Bradley, one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II and a General in the United States Army. He was the last surviving five-star commissioned officer of the United States. He was the first officer assigned to the post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Clarence M. Kelley, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
William Steele Sessions, served as a judge and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“Boss” Hoover, founder of the Hoover vacuum company
Garfield Todd, New Zeland missionary who became the Prime Minister of South Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe)
Ben Hogan, golfer
Some of the the infamous Disciples are:
Sally Rand, 1930's burlesque dancer and actress, most noted for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance
Jim Jones, cult leader of the Jonestown Massacre.
John Dillinger, famous mob gangster
Edgar Cayce, psychic, healer, photographer, and Sunday school teacher. You see his face almost every year at the check-out lines on the cover of supermarket tabloids, with his supposed top predictions for the year.
Carry Nation, the hatchet wielding anti-alcohol temperance lady from the early 1900's. (You probably remember her from American History classes.)
Rev. Kevin K. Adams
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