$43.13
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2011
Summary
“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 dist…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781439153154 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1439153159 |
| Author: | Fr Gregory Boyle |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 230mm x 390mm |
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Critics Review
“Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality.”
–“The Los Angeles Times
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“Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality.”
–“The Los Angeles Times
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“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
“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
“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
“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
“Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality.”
—”The Los Angeles Times
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Fr Gregory Boyle
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.
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