he helped found and was the first coordinator of the burlington peace and justice center, working on anti-war campaigns, and most recently has stood for seven years in all weather with a monday-through-friday peace vigil in burlington. his current political work focuses on two arenas: a just settlement between palestine and israel and what he considers to be crucially unanswered questions of 9/11. these political issues are discussed in some of his writings. in 1985, he enrolled in the starr king school for the ministry and became an ordained unitarian universalist minister in 1988, and was active in the church, but found it conflicted with his political work. he is also a cellist and vocalist who has worked with several orchestras including the "vermont philharmonic orchestra", the "lyric theater" orchestra, the "vermont symphony chorus".