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Greg Barrett is a twenty-years veteran of local, national, and foreign reporting, including the DC bureau for Gannett News Service/USA Today. He is the author of The Gospel of Father Joe: Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok. He lives in northern Virginia.

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"Barrett, a veteran journalist, records the inspiring work of Catholic priest Joe Maier in Bangkok's slums. Drawn to service in Thailand on a whim, the misfit American seminary student found a calling among the Thai downtrodden, even living in the slums himself. . . . many of the stories are memorable, from the tragic (street toddlers, happily schooled at Mercy, later dying there of HIV/AIDS), to the triumphant (Mercy graduates who attend college abroad and are able to climb out of poverty)."--from Publisher Weekly's Religion Bookline
"Based on his own meetings with Father Joe, his keen observer's eye, and on numerous early-morning interviews in Bangkok's Lumpini Park, where the priest engages in his daily run, Barrett tells his story sometimes with the objectivity of the experienced journalist he is, but also often as a poet, deeply stirred by the poignant contrasts between the deprivation of the slum-dwellers and the material excesses of the contemporary developed world in which he and his family live."--from Huffingtonpost.com

"The book is partly a story of the two men's friendship, part biography and part a detailing of Father Joe's beliefs about life and the world. It is boosted along by Barrett's writing, which is clear, thoughtful and pleasingly devoid of cliches. Barrett presents a well-rounded picture of Father Joe — compassionate, ornery and, in the opinion of some colleagues, an eccentric." -- from Gannett News Service

"Barrett writes beautifully about the connection Father Joe has with the small children, the older ‘street kids’ and those suffering with HIV and AIDS. They are not statistics but children with names who need to be loved… His positive, ever forward-looking approach is what these children need to survive and to advance in life." – from The Catholic Review

"…Barrett’s depiction of the slums and of the heroic effort and love of this priest inspires the best of humanity against the backdrop of the worst of the human condition." -- from The Mirror Online’s Book Nook
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