Father Greg Boyle Podcast
Here is some background on the man that didn t give up.
Father greg boyle podcast. He was originally supposed to work with the dolores mission there for a six year term but when the time. Father greg boyle makes amazingly winsome connections between things like service and delight and compassion and awe amazing because he works in an urban setting others describe in terms of crime and despair. The answers are surprising. He has received the california peace prize and been inducted into the california hall of fame.
His 2017 book is the los angeles times bestseller barking to the choir. Episode info father greg boyle is a jesuit priest and the founder of homeboy industries a los angeles based nonprofit devoted to intervention social reintegration and job training for former gang members. I want to be more tender so that folks feel less far away. On today s episode steve chats with father greg boyle the priest that started homeboy industries.
Father boyle witnessed the devastating impact of gang violence on his community during the so called decade of death that began in the late 1980s and peaked at 1 000 gang related killings in 1992. Homeboy industries is the largest gang intervention rehab re entry program in the us. In this episode of clear vivid alan alda has a lively and eye opening conversation with father greg boyle who tells how his homeboys industries in los angeles has been a lifeline to thousands of young people escaping the deadly culture of gang life. Father greg started in the poorest parish with the highe.
He landed as an idealistic young jesuit in a gang heavy neighborhood of los angeles three decades ago. The power of boundless compassion. Download boyle is a jesuit priest who has worked with gangs in east los angeles since 1986. The sunday to be list.
I want to be that person who knows how to look underneath and know where the thorn is. I want to be less eager to win the argument. The power of radical kinship. I want to be reverent for the complexity of things.
Father greg is the author of the 2010 new york times bestseller tattoos on the heart. Originally a los angeles secret and now a national treasure i admire pretty much everything about him and his work. And they throw light on how to communicate with anyone. Father greg boyle is a jesuit priest and the founder of homeboy industries a los angeles based nonprofit devoted to intervention social reintegration and job training for former gang members.