

More Police Presence Isn't Accomplishing the Goal of a Safer Society
As published in the New Orleans Times Picayune, May 6, 2024: https://www.nola.com/opinions/letters-if-goal-is-a-safer-society-policing-is...


Understanding the Importance of Community Practice for Christian Social Workers
Abstract: The start of the early Christian church is recounted in the book of Acts. In Acts 2 (NKJV), the author shares that after the...


Mayberry is Not Our Home
Abstract: The city, with its aura of danger and peril, has long been neglected by those with the potential to bring God's Shalom: peace...


Perseverance in the Face of Catastrophe
Link to a documentary made in the early years following Katrina in which I was featured: https://youtu.be/Zb8oASwZ7zM?si=j2NqLu4LL0oNaicD


Shifting Sand: Reconnecting Social Work Values to Historical Biblical Foundations
Social Work & Christianity, 49(4), 308-325, doi. 10.3403/swc.v.49i4.248.


100 Years before Rosa Parks: Four Women Who Desegregated Transit
An early streetcar passes the Treasury. All images from antique stereoviews in the collection of John DeFerrari.


A Faith Model of Prison Reform
This article originally appeared in Shared Grace: A Blog of the North American Association of Christians in Social Work:...


THE DEATH PENALTY AND OTHER QUESTIONS
I recently did a Q & A with Dr. Kevin Brown (who was previously on episode 18 of our podcast here), and we talked about the death penalty...


Training Inmates for Ministry Inside Maximum Security Prisons
This article originally appeared in Christianity Today Online at: https://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2018/october/training-inmat...


Future vs. Present Orientation toward Time
Mt. 6:25-34 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear....
