Father Greg Boyle has spent nearly four decades alongside gang members in Los Angeles, founding Homeboy Industries from the poorest parish in the city.
“An employed gang member may or may not go back to prison, but a healed one won’t ever go back to prison.”
In this episode with Mark Labberton, Boyle reflects on what heals a life inside the world’s largest gang-intervention program. Together they discuss tenderness as the highest form of spiritual maturity, kinship as the true goal (with peace and justice as byproducts), why “the poor evangelize you,” why demonizing collapses on both political sides, and the mental-health roots of homelessness and gang life.
