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Welcome to my website! I've posted here a number of my articles, speeches and sermons. The site is a work in progress, and I'd welcome suggestions. Feel free to quote any of the material or use it in any other way as long as you include a citation to this site.

I’ve tried to label articles, speeches, and sermons. Especially in the speeches (and a little less so in the sermons) you should expect to find some repetitious material.

 

 

 

RECENT WRITINGS

The Coming Simplicity is an attempt to look honestly at one of the the moral problems of our consumerism -- namely global warming-- and our spiritual responsibility to respond as individuals but more importantly as a community. I gave this as a teaching (sermon) at our Eighth Day Faith Community on April 20, 2008.

In March of 2008, presidential hopeful Barack Obama ran into a firestorm of criticism when video clips of sermons preached by Obama's pastor, Rev Jeremiah Wright, hit the Internet. From my point of view, the criticisms of Obama were fueled by the persistent racism and white misunderstandings of American racial history that have permeated our national history.

Economic inequality in the United States is greater than in any other developed country, and it's growing. The impact of this inequality on our country is significant, yet policy makers don't seem to consider it significant. What's causing it? What can we do about it? Check out The High Price of American Inequality

Here are a more concise review and a longer summary of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, which I consider to be the most important book I've read in a number of years.

Compassion and Justice is a talk I gave in June 2007 at the 17th anniversary of the founding of Joseph's House where we presented the first annual comassion and justice awards.

The Limits of Capitalism is a lecture I gave to our class at our church's Servant Leadership School that was a conversation between the Gospel and capitalism. It's a beginning look at some of the inherent limitations of capitalism in dealing with some of our most important problems.

 

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Urban Injustice:
How Ghettos Happen

or either of my other books,

Healing the Wounds:
A Doctor Looks at His Work

or

Not All of Us Are Saints:
A Doctor's Journey with the Poor