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In his new book about the power of God's radical love, Greg Boyle introduces readers to new experiences in his ministry to former gang members and teaches valuable lessons about inclusivity.
I never met a monster. >> met many people, under 18 years old lost to gang violence. >> i've been shot on two different occasions for the record. >> it was a cycle of violence, cycle of being in the neighborhood. >> why do you do this? >> scripture has this thing about the widow orphan and the stranger and these are the folks that you're supposed to have a preferential love for, for folks who are -- whose dignity has been denied and folks who are demonized. >> you call it boundless compassion. what is that? >> well, it's a way of kind of making room for all of these folks, no matter what, to k...
Members redirect their lives nobody st nothing stops a bullet like a job. tattoos on the heart, the power of boundless compassion. father boyle, thank you for being with me. this has become a model for gang intervention. what inspired you to create it? >> well, i think the diagnostic moment was to see that gang violence is really about a lethal absence of hope so how do you infuse a sense of hope to kids for whom hope is foreign. so all of them want a reason to get in the morning and a reason not to gang bang the night before. so to give them gainful employment and engage them in something mor...