Now available in paperback, Tracy K'Meyer's book is a thoughtful
and engaging portrait of Koinonia Farm, an interracial Christian
cooperative founded in 1942 by two white Baptist ministers in
southwest Georgia. The farm was begun as an expression of radical
southern Protestantism, and its interracial nature made it a beacon
to early civil rights activists, who rallied to its defense and
helped it survive attacks from the Ku Klux Klan and others.
Based on over fifty interviews with current and former Koinonia
members, K'Meyer's book provides a history, of the farm during its
period of greatest influence. K'Meyer outlines the conceptual flaws
that have troubled the community, but she finds that Koinonia's
enduring effect as a social movement -- including Millard Fuller's
founding of Habitat for Humanity, prompted by a 1965 visit to the
farm -- is far more meaningful than its internal conflicts. For
anyone in search of a hardy strain of Christian progressivism in
the Bible Belt, reading K'Meyer's book is an inspiring and
intellectually fulfilling experience in its own right.
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