Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion Paperback - 2011
by Gregory Boyle
Father Boyle started Homeboy Industries nearly 20 years ago, which has served members of more than half of the gangs in Los Angeles. This collection presents parables about kinship and the sacredness of life drawn from Boyle's years working with gangs.
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For twenty years, Father Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angelesalso known as the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on the Heart, he has distilled his experience working in the ghetto into a breathtaking series of parables inspired by faith.
From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JC Penney fresh out of prison, we learn how to feel worthy of Gods love. From ten-year-old Pipi we learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Lulu we understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the darkas 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.
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Readers broadly praised Gregory Boyle’s portrait of gang-involved youth as a rare blend of compassion, humor, and heartbreak that enlarges empathy and nudges people toward action. Many reported laughing and crying in equal measure, and highlighted Boyle’s theology of kinship and unconditional love as both challenging and deeply hopeful; several noted that proceeds support his nonprofit, Homeboy Industries. Even some nonreligious readers found the insights universal, though critiques cited a strong Christian framing, heavy use of quotations and Spanish slang, a loose, sermon-like structure with some repetition, and stories drawn largely from earlier decades. Overall, it was seen as a moving, hope-filled book that makes readers want to love better.
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- Title Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
- Author Gregory Boyle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 60840th
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Free Press, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2011-02-22
- ISBN 9781439153154 / 1439153159
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Category Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality
- Library of Congress subjects Christian life, Boyle, Greg
- Dewey Decimal Code 277.949
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