Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

by Gregory Boyle

“I’ve decided to be loving and kind in the world. Now . . . just hopin’ . . . the world will return the favor.”

I’ve learned from giving thousands of talks that you never appeal to the conscience of your audience but, rather, introduce them to their own goodness.

Thomas Wolfe, in You Can’t Go Home Again, writes, “To lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

What if we ceased to pledge our allegiance to the bottom line and stood, instead, with those who line the bottom?