John Egerton

Courage to Bear Witness

“How ironic--and how fitting--that Gene Davenport, a man who has made a career out of hiding his light under a bushel, should now be publicly heralded by more than dozen of his illustrious peers, some of whom found their own courage and inspiration in his words, spoken and written.”

Writings on Reconciliation and Resistance

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“"Will Campbell was supposed to be a Southern Baptist minister, a farmer, a docile rower of the white church's missionary boat; instead, he became a guerilla Protestant comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable across the South and beyond. He still preached, but seldom beneath the steeples . . . Historian Richard Goode, a close observer of Will Campbell's ministry and writings, has selected and introduced in this volume a distillation of the man's best work, and organized it into the two most compelling frames of Campbell's life: reconciliation and resistance. If they seem contradictory, well, so is Campbell, and the church, and the world.”