Father Greg Boyle: The Answer to Every Question Is Compassion

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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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. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Father Greg and Tami Simon discuss the work of Homeboy Industries and what it takes to move from a culture of violence to one of open tenderness. Father Greg describes the path that brought him to working with gang members—specifically his experiences in Bolivia, where his experiences with the poor brought to life the teachings of the Gospels. Tami and Father Greg talk about living the tenets of one's faith and what it means to offer love no matter the situation. Finally, they speak on the judgments many have of gang members and other criminals, and how we can seek a compassion that can "stand in awe at what people have to carry, rather than in judgment of how they carry it." (63 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
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0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, guest is Father Greg Boyle.
0:45.0	Father Greg is a Jesuit priest who is the founder of Home Boy
0:49.6	Industries.
0:51.0	He's the author of the bestsellers Tattoos on the heart, the power of boundless compassion,
0:57.0	and barking to the choir, the power of radical kinship.
1:01.0	With sounds true, Father Greg recently participated with Pemma
1:06.0	Chodron in a sold-out event on the UC L.A. Campus on cultivating courage.
1:14.5	Proceeds from the event are benefiting Home Boy Industries,
1:18.9	which is the largest gang intervention,
1:22.1	rehabilitation, and reentry program in the world.
1:26.5	To learn more, check out Homeboy industries.org.
1:31.3	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Father Greg and I spoke about his early work in
1:36.4	Bolivia, where he was evangelized by the poor and how he doesn't go to the margins to save but to find rescue.
1:47.8	We also talked about the culture of safety and tenderness that is foundational at Home Boy Industries and how he teaches
1:57.3	that community trumps gangs. We talked about how to deal with judgments we may feel towards gang members or others who commit crimes and how to seek quote a compassion that can stand in awe at what people have to carry rather than in judgment of how
2:17.8	they carry it. And finally we talked about what it means to Father Greg to be in the world as God is and to
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