Originally published at Ignatian Spirituality
A homegirl creating an art piece in author’s former art therapy program at Homeboy Industries
This is not a review of my friend Greg Boyle’s new book, Cherished Belonging: The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times. Rather, it is a story about my friend who wrote a book that he said he was not ever going to write. But during the many years I have been Greg’s friend, I’ve accepted that he likes to tell me the many reasons why he is never going to write another book that he ends up writing. Or he says he is not really a writer, when, of course, the evidence is clearly not in his favor.
Sometime in early 2023, I got one of those e-mails from him. “I’m not sure I want to write another book. Ever. I think.” As he says, “Yikes!”
He’ll tell you himself, in Cherished Belonging, why he did decide to write it. But I will tell you that the timing of the book and its release on Election Day in America is the comforting hug we’ll all need at the end of the elections, no matter where we stand. While addressing social division was not what motivated
