Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond was a Harvard-trained emergency room physician before he was ever a pastor. In 1992, gang violence tore through a funeral at a Boston church — and Hammond became one of the founding clergymen of the Ten-Point Coalition, the community-based movement that helped cut Boston's homicide rate by nearly 80% and became a national model for gun violence prevention still studied by cities today. In this conversation with host Anne Pratt, Hammond traces his own path from medicine to ministry to the street corner, distills the coalition's adaptive-leadership work into a three-word framework — Renewal, Responsibility, Reconnection — and describes standing in a Roxbury high school gym in 1990 as a newly freed Nelson Mandela walked in — the moment, he says, that taught him the substantive difference between power "with" people and power "over" people. The "Boston Miracle" model Hammond helped build is back in the national conversation in 2026, as cities debate whether the same community-based approach can address today's homelessness-linked crime. A conversation on adaptive leadership, servant leadership, faith-based community organizing, gun violence prevention, and peace for anyone who exercises leadership at any level.
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