Front cover of The Cotton Patch Evidence by Dallas Lee, featuring a historic photograph of farming at Koinonia Farm, displayed against a rustic wooden plank background.

The book that tells the story of Koinonia's early years.

In 1942, a small group of Christians moved onto a worn-out farm in southwest Georgia and attempted something both simple and radical: to live as neighbors across racial lines, share what they had, and take the teachings of Jesus seriously.

It did not go well.

Or perhaps it went exactly as the Gospels suggest it might.

Boycotts. Threats. Gunfire. Dynamite. Extraordinary friendships. Unexpected grace.

In The Cotton Patch Evidence, Dallas Lee tells the story of Koinonia's first twenty-eight years and the people who refused to abandon their vision when the cost became painfully high.

This edition includes a foreword by Lenny Jordan, son of Clarence and Florence Jordan, along with an afterword by Koinonia Director Bren Dubay reflecting on Koinonia's continuing work today.

Details

  • Paperback
  • 250 pages
  • Published by Wipf and Stock Publishers

The Cotton Patch Evidence

Wipf and Stock
$33.00
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Dianne Poole
Insight and Inspiration

Koinonia is a vibrant experiment in living. and Dallas Lee tells its story well. The faith of Koinonia's founders created a vibrant testament to God's beloved community. lIt was s gift to learn more about the commitment,
humility and just-plain-grit that they, theIr families and neighbors shared. Their legacy lives on in our broken, but still beautiful, world.

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B G Carter
The Story of Koinonia

To me it's the authoritative but highly readable version of the Farm's
birth and formative years. Lets you understand how all those prayers and efforts,
successes and failures, too contributed to fashion a doughty band of witnesses
to the truth of Christ's revelation and its taking root in our lives.
B G Carter

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Blynn Field
The Cotton Patch Evidence

This is a book for our time (the 2020s) when racism is in the headlines almost every day. Well-written by Dallas Lee, the setting is a farm where a group of Christians (primarily Baptists) formed a community in the 1940s, with the intention of "living like the apostles". This meant welcoming black members. Through the years, the farm attracted many people wanting to follow the teachings of Jesus, but also attracted the Ku Klux Klan in abusive ways. The book's descriptions of the Klan's bombings and brutality in dealing with members of the community are shocking indeed.