{"id":410,"date":"2006-01-11T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T09:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=410"},"modified":"2006-01-11T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T09:06:41","slug":"1808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"1\/8\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have come to the Koinonia Community on the outskirts of Americus, Georgia.  Established in 1942, this is a group of Christians living together in community around a pecan farm.  Former President Jimmy Carter, who lives 10 miles away in Plains, Georgia, called Koinonia:  &#8220;&#8230;a beacon for Civil Rights for those who believed in racial equality.&#8221;  Koinonia was started by the late Reverend Clarence Jordan, his wife and another couple.  Soon, they were doing the unheard of in the south.  Blacks and Whites were living and working together in community on the farm.  Andrew Young, the former mayor of Atlanta (and first major city Black mayor), called Koinonia the &#8220;backwater&#8221; Montgomery (Alabama) of the Civil Rights Movement.   Koinonia quickly became a lightening rod for protests, boycotts and violence (scores of drive by shootings, as an example), as many rallied, including the KKK, to shut Koinonia down.  Yet through it all, Jordan remained firm in his beliefs and would not back down.  And eventually, the climate changed.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  Clarence Jordan has been described as being on &#8220;the cutting edge of the prophetic.&#8221;  And in his life, Jordan also wrote a series of books (<em>Cotton Patch Gospel, The Substance of Faith &amp; Other Cotton Patch Sermons<\/em>, etc&#8230;) that were modern-day, common sense translations of the Bible.  Books that have been read by many across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have come to the Koinonia Community on the outskirts of Americus, Georgia. Established in 1942, this is a group of Christians living together in community around a pecan farm. Former President Jimmy Carter, who lives 10 miles away in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=410\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}