The Gospel of Father Joe Revolutions and Revelations in the Slums of Bangkok by Greg Barrett Foreword by Bishop Desmond Tutu ISBN: 9780470258637 $25.95 Hardcover Jossey-Bass Three decades ago, in a cordoned-off corner of the developing world, an angry Catholic priest armed only with pencils, paper, and crayons, declared a revolution. From a shanty school shared with Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok's squatter slums, Father Joe Maier began his advance on abject poverty. Today, Maier's Human Development Foundation and Mercy Centre charity is responsible for 32 preschools that have taught more than 20,000 children how to read and write. Despite the crippling neglect found in impoverishment, he is raising international scholars and injecting a sense of purpose into shantytowns and squatter camps that used to have neither.