Greg Barrett, the Gospel of Father Joe

GREG BARRETT is a twenty-year veteran of local, national, and foreign reporting for wire and newspapers in Georgia, the Carolinas, Hawaii, and Maryland. He was a roving correspondent based in the Washington, D.C., bureau for Gannett News Service/USA Today when he met Father Joe Maier, and most recently, he worked as a state correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. He lives in northern Virginia with his wife and two sons. His next book, titled THE GOSPEL OF RUTBA: Christians, Muslims and the Good Samaritan Story in Iraq, is a wonderful nonfiction tale of common humanity.