Scholars, artists, activists, and storytellers gather around Clarence Jordan’s legacy.

In 2012, in honor of what would have been Clarence Jordan’s one hundredth birthday and Koinonia’s seventieth anniversary, the first Clarence Jordan Symposium brought together theologians, historians, and activists in Sumter County, Georgia.

Roots in the Cotton Patch, Volume 1 contains Symposium presentations addressing Clarence's influence as a storyteller and contextual preacher and prophet, his pacifist witness in a violent and segregated South, and the contemporary meaning of his life's work in Christian community. Uniting these powerful essays is the obvious impact Jordan's life has had on so many. His life and work continue to inspire a new generation of activists, seminary students, and people in search of the meaning of Christian community.

Details

• Paperback
• 173 pages
• Edited by Kirk Lyman-Barner and Cori Lyman-Barner
• Published by Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers