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Crashing the Idols
The Vocation of Will D. Campbell (and any other Christian for that matter)
by Will D. Campbell and Richard C. Goode
Imprint: Cascade Books
Will D. Campbell was a Baptist preacher in Taylor, Louisiana, for two years before taking the position of Director of Religious Life at the University of Mississippi from 1954 to 1956. Forced to leave the university because of his ardent Civil Rights participation, Campbell served on the National Council of Churches in New York as a race relations consultant. Campbell worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and Andrew Young toward bettering race relations. Campbell's Brother to a Dragonfly earned him the Lillian Smith Prize, the Christopher Award, and a National Book Award nomination. The Glad River won a first-place award from the Friends of American Writers in 1982. His works have also won a Lyndhurst Prize and an Alex Haley Award.
Richard C. Goode is Professor of History at Lipscomb University in Nashville, and coordinates the Lipscomb University program at the Tennessee Prison for Women.
"Richard Goode is at it again, much like Will Campbell before him. Both of these southern Christian iconoclasts have helped me to appreciate what Goode calls 'the genius of Radical Christianity.' I recommend this book as an inspiring introduction to Campbell's life, prophetic witness, and to all for which he stood. May it embolden others to stand against 'the principalities and powers of the world.'"
--Douglas A. Sweeney
author of The American Evangelical Story
"Here is a book whose radical fidelity to the kingdom of God will shake you to the core. Drawing on the life and teachings of Will Campbell, Goode explains, for example, why Jesus 'was a traitor' whose 'Way is to commit treason,' and why there is finally no hope for principalities and powers like the PTA, the Pentagon, Communism, the Methodist Church, or the United States of America. If this book doesn't turn your world upside-down, then either you missed the point or you're not serious about following Jesus."
--Richard T. Hughes
author of Christian America and the Kingdom of God