Cotton Patch Gospel at Taproot Theatre Company

book: Tom Key, Russell Treyz; lyrics: Harry Chapin; music: Harry Chapin.

Authors

• Clarence Jordan
• Russell Treyz
• Tom Key

Cotton Patch Gospel is based on the writings of Clarence Jordan, a farmer and New Testament Greek scholar. In 1942, he founded Koinonia Farm, an influential religious community in southwest Georgia that continues to thrive today. Jordan was very involved the civil rights movement and social justice. In an effort to translate both the words and context of the scripture, he wrote several popular "Cotton Patch" adaptations of the New Testament, resetting the lives and preaching of Jesus and the Apostle Paul in contemporary rural Georgia.