Clarence Jordan (1912-1969) was a true American prophet, reared in the heart of the Southern Baptist Church, who passed up the options of scholarship (he had a PhD in New Testament Greek) or traditional ministry to found an interracial Christian community in Americus, Georgia: Koinonia. He was expelled from his local church for his stands on race and peace. His cooperative farm was attacked by the KKK and subject to a total economic boycott. Through his sermons and his rip-roaring vernacular translations of Scripture - his so-called 'Cotton Patch' version - Jordan laid out a revolutionary vision of the gospel and invited his readers to join the costly adventure of discipleship.