Author:  Fred Smith

Date:  December 7, 1999

Location:  Yale University School of Medicine

Background:  Dr. Smith was the Associate Director of the Interfaith Health Program following the retirement of Dr. Droege. He presented this lecture at Yale in the late 1990s laying out more explicitly the connections between IHP’s work, a Christian vision of social justice, and the legacy of the US Civil Rights Movement.

Note:  The text in this document is transcribed from an audio recording of Dr. Smith’s lecture. The transcription attempts to capture both his words and the questions asked by audience members. However, there are a few points where this is not possible due to the quality of the recording.

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