Saturday, March 09, 2013

On Being -- Father Greg Boyle on the Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, Kinship

Father Greg Boyle on the Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, Kinship
On Being with Krista Tippett

A Jesuit priest famous for his gang intervention programs in Los Angeles, Fr. Greg Boyle makes winsome connections between service and delight, and compassion and awe. He heads Homeboy Industries, which employs former gang members in a constellation of businesses. This is not work of helping, he says, but of finding kinship. The point of Christian service, as he lives it, is about “our common calling to delight in one another.”

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