Father Greg Boyle: The Case for Hope

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens Studios

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

There are some people who see need and, rather than feeling stuck by the magnitude of the world's pain, they move toward it. Today's guest is one of those kinds of people. Father Greg Boyle has worked with former gang members in Los Angeles for over thirty years with Homeboy Industries, which employs and trains former gang members and offers free services to facilitate healing. In this conversation, Kate and Father Boyle discuss how living at the margins turns us inside out, how crucial hope is to healing, and why we should all embrace his understanding of kinship. For show notes, transcripts, and discussion questions: https://katebowler.com/podcasts/greg-boyle-the-case-for-hope/ Sign up for our free daily Lenten reflections at https://katebowler.com/lent To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Kate Boehler and this is Everything Happens.
0:04.0	I'm a historian, author, aggressively fast walker,
0:07.8	but lately in a world that promises endless progress,
0:12.1	even now in a pandemic, I've realized,
0:15.8	I just need to be a person.
0:18.2	It's hard to give up on the feeling
0:20.0	that the life you want is just out of reach
0:23.4	if only you tried.
0:25.8	Eat this food, find that relationship,
0:28.8	just get the kids graduated or the parents this kind of care.
0:33.1	Only then will I feel different, better, whole.
0:39.0	But that's not the way this works.
0:42.0	When I was 35, I was diagnosed with stage four cancer
0:45.4	and here's the very fun thing about that.
0:48.4	The world loves you better when you are shiny,
0:51.6	when you are cheerful,
0:53.1	when you still believe that your best life now
0:55.9	is right around the corner.
0:57.9	I've written multiple books on the history of the idea
1:00.7	that you can always fix your life,
1:03.0	so I'm going to be the one to say it.
1:05.5	There are some things we can change and some things we can't.
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