Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Review Quotes: "Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality." --"The Los Angeles Times " Review Quotes: "Incandescent, always hope-filled and often hilarious. Boyle somehow maintains an exuberant voice that celebrates...
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Review Quotes: --"The Los Angeles Times " Review Quotes: "Incandescent, always hope-filled and often hilarious. Boyle somehow maintains an exuberant voice that celebrates the strength, compassion and humanity of people often demonized. He simply highlights charity and goodness wherever they are found. Boyle intersperses his narratives about gang members and his work with them with theological and spiritual reflections from a variety of theologians, poets and other writers. By introducing book-buying, highly educated readers to people we may never otherwise encounter, Boyle aspires to "broaden the parameters of our kinship.'"--"The Christian Century" Review Quotes: "Father Boyle reminds us all that every single child and youth is a part of God's 'jurisdiction'--and when they know that we are seeing them as God does, they are capable of great things. Father Boyle is a national treasure." --MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN, PRESIDENT, CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND Review Quotes: "A spiritual masterpiece touching the innermost sanctum of the human soul. Boyle approaches each person as a child of God and fully deserving of love and compassion. His capacity to reach the heart of the most hardened, and to see the best in everyone, inspires. I laughed, wept, and underlined on virtually every page." --KERRY KENNEDY, FOUNDER OF THE RFK CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Review Quotes: "Tattoos on the Heart is an astounding book and a remarkable testament. No one brings more triumph and tragedy to the street gang story than Greg Boyle. No one brings more conviction and compassion than Greg Boyle. And no one writes the gang story more beautifully." --MALCOLM KLEIN, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Review Quotes: “Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality.” —"The Los Angeles Times " Review Quotes: "Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality." --"The Los Angeles Times " Review Quotes: "An astonishing book . . . about suffering and dignity, death and resurrection, one of my favorite books in years. It is lovely and tough and tender beyond my ability to describe and left me in tears of both sorrow and laughter."--ANNE LAMOTT, AUTHOR OF GRACE (EVENTUALLY) Review Quotes: "Tattoos on the Heart is an honest, raw, and compelling collection from Father Greg Boyle's life and work with gang-involved youth. His commitment should teach us all a lesson in compromise, sharing, learning, loving, and, most important, living life to the fullest." --ANJELICA HUSTON Review Quotes: "An extraordinary reflection of a life totally committed to reshaping and redirecting the lives of countless young gang members (from L.A.'s gang culture), Greg Boyle's Tattoos on the Heart proves one man with courage is a majority." --MARTIN SHEEN Brief Description: A collection of parables about kinship and the sacredness of life drawn from Father Boyle's years of working with gangs. Review Quotes: "One of the bravest, most humane, heartbreaking, brilliant, and hopeful stories I've read in ages. Father Greg, the Gandhi of the Gangs, fills Tattoos with unquenchable soul force and down-to-earth love." --JACK KORNFIELD, AUTHOR OF A PATH WITH HEART Review Quotes: "Sometimes we are allowed to see in our own lifetimes what we were supposed to see in the life and ministry of Jesus. Read, and let your life be changed!" --FATHER RICHARD ROHR, O.F.M., CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Dolores Mission and Homeboy Industries -- Chapter 1. God, I Guess -- Chapter 2. Dis-Grace -- Chapter 3. Compassion -- Chapter 4. Water, Oil, Flame -- Chapter 5. Slow Work -- Chapter 6. Jurisdiction -- Chapter 7. Gladness -- Chapter 8. Success -- Chapter 9. Kinship -- Acknowledgments. Biographical Note: Gregory Boyle is an American Jesuit priest and the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry program in the world. In 2024, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States's highest civilian honor. He has received the California Peace Prize and been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. He received the University of Notre Dame's 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics. He is the acclaimed author of Tattoos on the Heart, Barking to the Choir, and The Whole Language. Cherished Belonging is his fourth book, and he will be donating all net proceeds to Homeboy Industries. Visit the author at HomeboyIndustries.org. Publisher Marketing: "Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality" (Los Angeles Times)--Tattoos on the Heart is a series of parables about kinship and redemption from pastor, activist, and renowned speaker, Father Gregory Boyle.Thirty years ago, Gregory Boyle founded Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry program in Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on the Heart, his debut book, he distills his experience working with gang members into a breathtaking series of parables inspired by faith. From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JC Penney fresh out of prison, you learn how to feel worthy of God's love. From ten-year-old Pipi you learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Lulu you come to understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the dark--as Father Boyle phrases it, we can only shine a flashlight on a light switch in a darkened room. This is a motivating look at how to stay faithful in spite of failure, how to meet the world with a loving heart, and how to conquer shame with boundless, restorative love. Review Citations:
Contributor Bio:Boyle, Gregory |
Author: Boyle, Gregory
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2011-02-22
BISAC: Religion|Christian Living|Spiritual Growth|Self-Help|Motivational & Inspirational|Social Science|Sociology|General|Religion|Christianity|History|Biography & Autobiography|Memoirs
Subjects: Church work with juvenile delinquents|California|East Los Angeles|Christian life|Boyle, Greg
Weight: 0.46 lbs
ISBN: 9781439153154
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9781439153154