Michael Barrick is a free lance writer and author. He has served as a reporter and editor at local dailies and weeklies, and his columns have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Dallas Morning News, The Charlotte Observer, the (Newton, N.C.) Observer-News-Enterprise and others. His free lance work has appeared in Christianity Today, Now & Then Magazine, the Raleigh News & Observer and other publications. He served as the web and printer editor for Wall Watchers, a nonprofit donor advocate. In his work there, he helped expose the wrongdoing of numerous evangelical leaders and also wrote features on exemplary organizations. A native and lifelong resident of Appalachia, he has written extensively on environmental issues and was the first to report of successful efforts of students at Catholic universities to convince university leaders to divest their schools of stock in Massey Energy for the harm the company is doing in the coalfields of Central Appalachia through the process known as “Mountain Top Removal.”
He has written four books:
- The Hillbilly Highway
- Seven Days in Haiti
- Exceptional Care, A Century Strong: A ‘Mission of Mercy and Healing’
- The Dangerous Delusion of American Exceptionalism
