Father Greg Boyle Shares The Meaning of Radical Kinship
Meaningful Conversations with Maria Shriver
Shriver Media and Cadence13
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
"The minute you can kind of say, wow, the widow, orphan stranger, the folks at the margins, these are my trustworthy guides, I'm going to go there so they can lead me to the kinship. Oh God. Well that's, you've just turned privilege on its head because you're not guiding them or leading them. They're doing that to you."
-Father Greg Boyle
Father Greg Boyle is the Founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries and one of my real life heroes. Originally a Los Angeles secret and now a national treasure, I admire pretty much everything about him and his work.
He is a global champion of social justice, a global champion of the divinity in each of us, and a global champion people, in general. He focuses on people who were in gangs and the rehabilitation of that, but larger than that to me, he really cares about the beauty that exists in each and every one of us.
So I want to welcome Father Boyle and we want to sell his book, Barking to the Choir: The power of Radical Kinship. Listen in to hear what radical Kinship is, how to get involved with social justice and help your fellow human being.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Maria Shriver and this is meaningful conversations. On every episode we'll take a journey into the lives of inspiring, thoughtful, thought-provoking people. |
| 0:13.0 | People who are smart, spirited, and spiritual. |
| 0:17.0 | People who have done extraordinary things |
| 0:19.0 | to make a positive impact on our world. |
| 0:22.0 | These are people I respect and admire. positive impact on our world. |
| 0:22.6 | These are people I respect and admire. |
| 0:25.8 | People who inspire me. |
| 0:27.8 | I want them to share their stories, |
| 0:30.1 | their experiences, their wisdom, and their feelings with you. |
| 0:34.4 | I hope we can come together in community to reflect on the issues and topics that we're all |
| 0:40.7 | thinking about, but no one seems to be talking about. |
| 0:45.0 | I hope that you're inspired to have more meaningful conversations with the people in your life. |
| 0:59.0 | Father Greg Boyle is a global champion for social justice and one of the most inspiring architects of |
| 1:04.9 | change that I know. As the founder of Home Boye Industries in Los Angeles, Father Boyle |
| 1:09.7 | and his team employ and train former gang members who are ready to walk the path to a better life. |
| 1:16.3 | Home Boy Industries is the largest program of its kind in the world. |
| 1:21.0 | I've followed Father Boyle's soul-changing work for years and I admire him so much for |
| 1:25.8 | encouraging us all to see the value and potential in every human being's life. I recently sat down |
| 1:32.1 | with him to talk about his new book and also |
| 1:34.1 | to discuss what he's learned about how faith, compassion, and connection can |
| 1:38.6 | transform all of our lives. I hope you find this conversation as inspiring as I did. |
| 1:49.0 | So I'm really glad to be talking to one of my real life heroes in real life you rarely get to do that. |
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