The whole language : the power of extravagant tenderness
(2021)
By:
Boyle, Greg
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
248.2/BOYLE,G
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2021
EDITION
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
xx, 226 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781982128326, 1982128321, 9781982128326
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction -- You're here -- The soul clapping its hands -- The thorn underneath -- The eighth sacrament -- Air of a richer kind -- House-sitting for God -- The lining of the world -- The finishing touch -- The place itself -- Epilogue: Unmute yourself
The founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang-intervention program in the world, through a series of moving stories that bear witness to the transformative power of tenderness, challenges ideas about God and about people