On Being with Krista Tippett

Greg Boyle — The Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, and Kinship

12.19.2019 - By On Being StudiosPlay

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Fr. Greg Boyle makes amazingly winsome connections between things like service and delight, compassion and awe. He landed as an idealistic young Jesuit in a gang-heavy neighborhood of Los Angeles three decades ago. Now he heads Homeboy Industries, which employs former gang members in a constellation of businesses from screen printing to a farmers’ market to a bakery. This is not work of helping, he says, but of finding kinship.

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