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Reading Romans Backwards: A Gospel of Peace in the Midst of Empire is unavailable, but you can change that!

To read Romans from beginning to end, from letter opening to final doxology, is to retrace the steps of Paul. To read Romans front to back was what Paul certainly intended. But to read Romans forward may have kept the full message of Romans from being perceived. Reading forward has led readers to classify Romans as abstract and systematic theology, as a letter unstained by real pastoral concerns....

Americus, Georgia, 1950, Rehoboth Baptist Church. August 13 to be exact. The precipitating problem is that Clarence Jordan’s Koinonia Farm, just down the road from the church, brought to church a visitor, an Indian Hindu named R. C. Sharma. The problem was not that he was a Hindu and therefore in need of hearing the gospel but that he had dark skin. On August 13, the congregation voted—two-thirds—to expel Clarence and his wife, Florence, along with all other members of
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