George Conklin:  

Hi, George Conklin here. Here in this case is Berkeley, CA where I am retired. After Bulkeley I went to Bates college and then Hartford Theological Seminary. I've been a United Church of Christ minister for over 50 years. Most of that time was spent as a publisher and producer of radio, TV and film. I'm retired from being a professor of communication at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, the oldest Protestant seminary in the West. My ministry has been focused on communication, a combination of two things. Communicating for the churches and analyzing what communication is doing in culture. That has taken me to two dozen countries, from India and Asia to the Middle East, working with church organizations. That lead me - about 1960 - to lead several challenges, before the Federal Communication Commission, to broadcast station license renewals in San Francisco because of discrimination in race and gender hiring. We broke the discrimination barrier! On the global scene I've visited 35 countries. Some was pleasure travel. Many trips were to do workshops on the use of mass media for social change. They ...Expand for more