THE GOSPEL of FATHER JOE

From a Pile of Clips: Cancer, War, Jobs, Marriage, Obama

Stories from Salon, USA Today, Gannett News Service, Baltimore Sun, etc.


Barack Obama / pre-media mania At Democratic Convention in Boston with rising star Obama

Pre-war Iraq In Baghdad and Basra one month before US-led invasion

Cairo / post 9-11 Looking at perspectives of the US from Egypt in spring after 9/11

Military families At Fort Steward, Ga., to see war's toll on US military families

The Politics of Marriage Debate turns to gay nuptials as 2004 elections approach

UN sanctions vs. Iraqi citizens Effect of economic sanctions on everyday Iraqis / Seattle Times.

War on Cancer: (1st of 3) Public vs. Private funding of cancer research. Three-part report.

War on Cancer (2nd of 3) Part 2 of three-part report. Examines short life of a drug oncetouted as a silver bullet

NOT Made in America (1st of 5) Part 1 of five-part report: Jobs in America's (d)evolving economy

NOT Made in America (3rd of 5) Part 3 of five-part jobs report

The Body Farm Corpse research facility at Univ. of Tennessee in Knoxville

The Gray Matter of Killers Old story about the brains of mass killers, e.g. Va. Tech shooter

The Mother of All Grief Four Maryland mothers in the course of four days lose their sons to the war in Iraq

Rent a llama with homeland dollars Investigation into how Maryland is spending its wealth of federal homeland security funds

The Faces of 'Shock and Awe' In Iraq bracing for war, peace activists volunteer to endure the U.S. promise of "shock and awe."


"The story of Father Joe and the Bangkok squatter land he calls holy is a critical chapter in the modern-memoirs of humankind." Nobel Peace Laureate Rev. Desmond Tutu

"The book is ... about salvation, about hope amidst the hopeless, about compassion ..." Peter Clothier of The Huffington Post.com

"Narrating a Three Cups of Tea setting... Barrett records the inspiring work of Catholic priest Joe Maier in Bangkok's slums." - Publishers Weekly Religion Bookline

"For more than thirty-five years Father Joe has been an inspiration for the poor, the downtrodden, and the forgotten..." United States Senator Jim Webb, Virginia


	The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok by Greg Barrett Three decades ago in a cordoned-off corner of the developing world an angry Catholic priest armed only with pencil, paper, and common sense declared a revolution on abject poverty.