Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
From Greg Boyle
I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.
Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.
Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.
Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.
I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.
The business of second chances is everybody's business.
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