Greg Boyle was trained as a Jesuit priest. In what ways did Boyle’s Jesuit training affect his later outreach efforts through Homeboy Industries? How did Boyle’s early missionary work in Bolivia affect how he viewed the world?

In its early days, Homeboy Industries received a wide variety of threats, such as bomb threats, and its facilities were vandalized several times. Why did Homeboy Industries’ initiatives receive such negative attention?

Compare and contrast Greg Boyle’s character with that of 60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace, who appears in the first chapter of the book. In what ways are they fundamentally different from each other? What circumstances account for their differences?