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Father Gregory Boyle: A Radical Strategy for Dealing With Difficult People | Podcast Interview

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. William Blake wrote, “We are put on earth for a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.” Turns out this is what we all have in common, gang member and nongang member alike: we’re ju

Gregory Boyle • Tattoos on the Heart_ the Power of Boundless Compassion

Homeboy Industries were the following: 1) Everyone is unshakably good (no exceptions) and 2) We belong to each other (no exceptions

We need to do better as a society, and understand that, yes, there are people in the system that deserve this kind of punishment, but a large majority of our prison population are just regular people… non-violent drug offenders like myself. There are plenty more, like me, that are capable of being responsible, productive, tax paying members of soci... See more

From Brave New Films, Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs & Prisons follows the transformative stories of former gang members as they share their childhood mental and physical abuse, growing up in the gang lifestyle, and the hope they have found at Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. Hig... See more

Homeboy Industries • Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs & Prisons

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

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In situations like this, it is controlled chaos. I wish I had the code to unlock Michael’s mind. But no such code exists. All I can bring to the conversation are my heart and my trust that God wants me in the midst of this chaos. The imprisoned are the poorest of the poor. If the heart of God is to be found anywhere, it is to be found in the hole.

Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

No person, whoever he or she is or wherever he or she lives, is denied the grasp of God’s heart. We are cherished by God, hunted by God, redeemed by God. And having experienced this, we are reminded that we are called to be bearers of God’s love and truth, and, as bearers, we are to bring that love and truth into our culture, where there exist the