Clarence Jordan and the Red Clay of Koinonia
In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a Baptist minister with a doctorate in Greek New Testament — drove his family into the red clay countryside outside...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 58:1-12.
In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a Baptist minister with a doctorate in Greek New Testament — drove his family into the red clay countryside outside Americus, Georgia, and started a farm. What made Koinonia Farm scandalous was breathtakingly simple: Black and white families would live, work, and eat together at the same table. Sumter County responded with fury. The Ku Klux Klan fired shots into the farmhouse at night.…
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