Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

by Gregory Boyle

don’t empower anyone at Homeboy Industries. But if one can love boundlessly, then folks on the margins become utterly convinced of their own goodness.

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It makes nonsense of all that would separate us—color, religion, politics.

Demonizing and judging one another can’t survive the plentitude of community.

Jesus, the self that needs to die is the one that wants to be separate.

We think that Jesus wants a fan club. Undulating

Jesus does not say in the gospel, “Worship me,” but simply “Follow me.”

How does praise please God, anyway? Or what would God find pleasure in? Find the thing that quenches God’s thirst.

What matters to him is the authentic following of a disciple.

Somehow the highest praise of God is not in speaking unintelligibly but, rather, in speaking a language of inclusion where barriers are dismantled, circles are widened, and no one is left outside. No one.

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sometimes just plain hard to locate the will to be in kinship even though, at the same time, it’s our deepest longing.

Everyone recognizing themselves in the brokenness. All of us, a cry for help, judgment nowhere in sight. And, yes, entering, just right now, into the fullness of kinship. And I think that’s the only praise God has any interest in.