Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.

Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.

In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.

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.

At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.