Word: koinonia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three Dutch Reformed churches, two are relatively small (combined membership: 338,000). Ironically, the one with the more liberal theology takes the hardest line on race, while the more doctrinally conservative church has a group of members who signed last year's Koinonia Declaration, a rare Christian Afrikaner protest against South African racial policies. By far the most important of the three churches is the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk, or N.G. Church, which is often sarcastically called "the National Party at prayer." It claims the allegiance of 1.5 million of the nation's 2.5 million Afrikaners, including Prime Minister...
...said that Hamilton Jordan, Carter's national campaign director, comes from a radical New Testament background in the South. His father, Clarence Jordan, was a radical populist and Southern Baptist, who started a farm called Koinonia (the Greek New Testament word for community) in Americas, Georgia. This farm was an inter-racial co-operative group with emphasis on pacifism...
...manner but is a coolly professional political operative. In 1966, he was youth coordinator of Carter's first, unsuccessful campaign for Governor, then managed his winning gubernatorial drive in 1970 and became his executive secretary. Jordan describes himself as a late-blooming progressive. A cousin founded Koinonia (Greek for fellowship or communion), a biracial farm in southwestern Georgia that deeply offended Ku Klux Klan members and other white racists in the 1940s. Even so, Jordan as a teen-ager opposed the black civil rights movement, only to change his mind a few years later...