Health care is a human right

Posted on October 21, 2009
Filed under Community, Culture, Service, Witness | by David Leave a Comment

Below is a podcast (with videos!) of our recent Faith and Life Forum. Thanks to all the participants for the great questions, and to Dr. David Baltierra of PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM for coming out to be with us not once, but twice. His eloquence, knowledge and kindness, as you will see, are just what is needed in this contentious national conversation.

The beginning of the intro is cut off in the recording; the complete excerpt of the T.S Eliot poem Choruses From The Rock is as follows:

What life have you, if you have not life together?
There is not life that is not in community,
And no community not lived in praise of GOD.

And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads,
And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor
Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance,
But all dash to and fro in motor cars,
Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore.

I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate
Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.

And the wind shall say: “Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.”

When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city?
Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”
What will you answer? “We all dwell together
To make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?

Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.
Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

Introduction (Don Prange and David Weintraub) Get Adobe Flash player

Dr. David Baltierra, part 1 Get Adobe Flash player

Dr. David Baltierra, part 2 Get Adobe Flash player

Dr. David Baltierra, part 3 Get Adobe Flash player

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And here are the videos:

Enjoy! We would love to have the comments of those who couldn’t be there.

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