The Committee of Southern Churchmen and their publication <cite>Katallgete</cite>
Through Campbell, Lawson had contact with the Committee of Southern Churchmen. One of the most important outreaches of that organization was the journal <cite>Katallgete</cite>, a Greek word meaning "be reconciled."
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Oral History Interview with James Lawson, October 24, 1983. Interview F-0029. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- DALLAS A. BLANCHARD:
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How would you characterize the Committee of Southern Churchmen as an
organization?
- JAMES A. LAWSON:
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Well, I really wasn't close to it except through Will, and I, I thought
primarily as the vehicle that essentially Will formed and reorganized
for the purpose of providing himself with a basic organizational
leverage or platform to organize his ministries around. So that's really
how I thought ... I wasn't aware in those years in the '60's they had
that many meetings. They did more relating to Will Campbell by phone
calls and correspondence than they really did have that many
meetings.
- DALLAS A. BLANCHARD:
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OK.
- JAMES A. LAWSON:
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They sustained and supported his work and his philosophy. Of course, the
magazine became fairly a prophetic voice, it seemed to me at least, but
again, how widely circulated it was I don't know.