ONE STATLER BROTHERS SONG MADE CHURCHGOERS SING WITH TEARS—ANOTHER LEFT THEM SILENT WITH GUILT: How Harold Reid’s Forgotten Masterpiece About an Outcast Woman Named Rose Challenged Everything Nashville Thought Gospel Music Should Be, Why “Amazing Grace” and a Story of Mercy Could Both Come From the Same Four Voices, and the Timeless Question That Still Divides Listeners Today—Is True Faith Found in the Hymn We Sing Every Sunday, or in the Compassion We Show the People Everyone Else Has Already Judged?

Introduction ONE STATLER BROTHERS SONG LEFT CHURCHES IN TEARS—ANOTHER INVITED LISTENERS TO LOOK AT MERCY...