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Cherished belonging : the healing power of love in divided times / Gregory Boyle.
A Jesuit priest's work with gang members inspires a vision of compassionate community and radical kindness, promoting the idea that everyone is inherently good and that we all belong to each other.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668061855 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Christianity > Social aspects. Communities > Religious aspects. Communities > Social aspects. |
| Genre: | Religious materials. Self-help publications. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Cookstown Branch | 248.4 Boy | 31681010397313 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A Jesuit priestâs transformative work with gang members inspires a vision of compassionate community and radical kindness, promoting the idea that everyone is inherently good and that we all belong to each other. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
A Jesuit priest's transformative work with gang members inspires a vision of compassionate community and radical kindness, promoting the idea that everyone is inherently good and that we all belong to each other. - Simon and Schuster
In a world increasingly marked by division and discord, beloved Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle offers a transformative vision of community and compassionâa perfect message for readers of Anne Lamott, Mary Oliver, and Richard Rohr.
Over the past thirty years, Gregory Boyle has transformed tens of thousands of lives through his work as the founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervention program in the world. The program runs on two unwavering principles: 1) We are all inherently good (no exceptions), and 2) we belong to each other (no exceptions).
Boyle believes that these two ideas allow all of us to cultivate a new way of seeing the world. Rather than the tribalism that excludes and punishes, this new narrative proposes a village that cherishes. Pooka, a former gang member, puts it plainly: âHere, love is our lens. It is how we see things.â
In Cherished Belonging, Boyle calls back to Christianityâs origins as a spiritual movement of equality, emancipation, and peace. Early Christianity was a way of lifeânot a set of beliefs. Boyleâs vision of community is a space for people to join together and heal one another in a new collective living, a world dedicated to kindness as a constant and radical act of defiance. As one homie, Marcus, told a classroom filled with inner-city teenagers, âIf love was a place, it would be Homeboy.â
Cherished Belonging invites us to nurture the connections that are all around us and live with kindness. Boyle believes that âthe answer to every question is, indeed, compassion.â Through colorful and profound stories brimming with wisdom, humor, and inspiration, we understand that love is the light inside everything.
