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siders “subversive” won't come to you. You need to reach out for it. The following are a
few of the topics (listed in chronological order) that have shaped and inspired my thinking
over the years:
Bread for the World
(Arthur Simon),
Food First
(Frances Moore Lappé),
The Origins of Totalitarianism
(Hannah Arendt),
Future in Our Hands
(Erik Dammann),
Manufacturing Consent
(Noam Chomsky),
War Against the Poor: Low-Intensity Conflict
and Christian Faith
(Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer),
Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with
Third World Eyes
(Robert McAfee Brown),
The United States of Europe
(T. R. Reid),
The
European Dream
(Jeremy Rifkin), and
The End of Poverty
(Jeffrey Sachs).
Conquering fear and ethnocentrism through world exploration rewards the traveler with
a grand and global perspective.
Find ways to translate your new global passions to local needs. As the saying goes,
“Think globally…act locally.” Travel has taught me the reality of homelessness. Talking
with a proud and noble woman like Beatriz in El Salvador—which does more to human-
ize the reality of poverty than reading a library of great topics on the subject—inspires
you to action once back home. Thinking creatively, I used part of my retirement savings
to purchase a small apartment complex that I loan to the YWCA to use to house local
homeless mothers. Now, rather than collect taxable interest, I climb into my warm and se-
