02418cam a2200349 i 4500 1742726249 TxAuBib 20250109120000.0 241028s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2024029127 9781668061855 HRD 30.00 1668061856 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Boyle, Greg, author. Cherished belonging [BOOK] : the healing power of love in divided times / Gregory Boyle. First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024. vii, 212 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 unshakably 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. Rather than the tribalism that excludes and punishes, this new narrative proposes a village that cherishes. Pooka, a former gang member who now oversees the program’s housing division, puts it plainly: 'Here, love is our lens. It is how we see things.' In Cherished Belonging, Boyle calls back to Christianity’s origins as a subversive spiritual movement of equality, emancipation, and peace. Early Christianity was a way of life—not a set of beliefs. Boyle’s 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. Cherished Belonging invites us to nurture the connections that are all around us and live with radical kindness.". 20250109. Boyle, Greg. Homeboy Industries (Organization.) Church work with juvenile delinquents California East Los Angeles. Kindness Anecdotes. Christian life Anecdotes. Communities Social aspects. Communities Religious aspects. Christianity Social aspects.