Tuesday, April 8
Al Staggs, Clarence Jordan and the God
Movement
Elon Community Church, 7:30 p.m.
The H. Shelton Smith
Lecture
Al Staggs’ performance of
Clarence Jordan and the God Movement depicts the former
Baptist minister and biblical scholar who, in 1942, founded
the interracial community of Koinonia in south Georgia.
Jordan’s perspective on Christian discipleship,
particularly in regard to the issues of racial equality, war
and greed, made him a highly controversial figure in his
hometown of Americus and Sumter County, Georgia. This event
is the annual H. Shelton Smith program, which honors the 1917
Elon graduate who was founder of the North Carolina Council
of Churches and of the graduate program in religious studies
at Duke University.