Greg Boyle The Calling of Delight: Gangs, Service, and Kinship

Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 5:20 p.m.

b'Fr. Greg Boyle makes amazingly winsome connections between things like service and delight, compassion and awe. He landed as an idealistic young Jesuit in a gang-heavy neighborhood of Los Angeles three decades ago. Now he heads Homeboy Industries, which employs former gang members in a constellation of businesses from screen printing to a farmers\\u2019 market to a bakery. This is not work of helping, he says, but of finding kinship.'