Greg Boyle - Homies, Homicides and the Power of Radical Kinship (N204)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Greg Boyle is a Jesuit priest, who in 1986 was appointed pastor of a church in one of the most deprived areas of Los Angeles, in a church that sat between two large public housing projects, which had the highest concentration of gangs in the country.Â
Amidst shocking levels of violence and murder (Greg has personally conducted the funerals of some 229 young men), Greg slowly began to make connections with the gang members, and eventually established the largest gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.
After the interview, Nomad hosts Tim Nash and Nick Thorley reflect on Greg's experiences and wonder how it might shape their evolving faith journey.
Interview starts at 16m 12s
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | You'll be pleased to hear that Nick is with me. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello there. |
| 0:42.3 | Nick, in this episode, we're speaking with Los Angeles-based Jesuit priest Father Greg Boyle. |
| 0:47.9 | Sounds cool already. |
| 0:49.1 | It does sound quite cool, isn't it? |
| 0:50.6 | Some interviews, Nick, are quite quick and easy to set up. |
| 0:53.1 | I don't know if this was the case back when you were setting up interviews for Nomad Podcast. I can't remember. So, for example, Janet Williams, don't you listen to that one? Edwina Gately? You probably didn't, did you? Yeah, Edwina Gately. Amazing lady on the streets. |
| 1:07.0 | Very similar to this interview, I thought. Yeah. So both those people, I kind of discovered them, contacted them, arranged the interview, and interviewed them all in the space of a few weeks. |
| 1:17.0 | But then there are other interviews, Nick, where it takes considerably longer. |
| 1:20.4 | Really? |
| 1:20.8 | And I think this one, Greg Boyle, I think this is the record for the longest. |
| 1:26.2 | Really? How long? |
| 1:27.1 | Well, it's hard to pin it down exactly from when I first became aware of Greg Boyle |
| 1:30.7 | and thought, I want to interview this person until the interview. |
| 1:33.4 | But it is not less than four years. |
| 1:36.2 | That's crazy, isn't it? |
| 1:37.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.6 | Partly because I thought, this guy is so interesting, I want to meet him. |
| 1:41.4 | I don't just want to do it on Skype. So I was sort of emailing a couple of times a year saying when are you coming to the UK, |
| 1:47.7 | have you got a bit of free time? |
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