Clarence Jordan Author

A farmer, preacher, and bible scholar, Clarence Jordan (1912-1969) founded Koinonia Farm, a pacifist interracial Christian community in Georgia, in 1942. He is the author of the Cotton Patch Gospel, a translation of the New Testament into the vernacular of the American South. Frederick L. Downing is head of the department of philosophy and religious studies at Valdosta State University in Georgia, and the author of three biographies: Clarence Jordan: A Radical Pilgrimage in Scorn of the Consequences; To See the Promised Land: The Faith Pilgrimage of Martin Luther King Jr.; and Elie Wiesel: A Religious Biography.