Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » Homeboy Industries http://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Advent Day 16: Our True Height In Love http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-16-true-height-love/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-16-true-height-love/#comments Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:11:37 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6298 *photo above: kids at last night’s Toy Give at NWLife – over 400 children received Christmas gifts Father Greg Boyle tells the story of a homie named Fili and a volunteer at Homeboy Industries named Ms. June… One of our tutors at Homeboy, Ms. June, is managing a roomful of students, whom she is teaching […]

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]]> http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-15-stay-close-poor/feed/ 2 And Awe Came Upon Everyone http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/awe-came-upon-everyone/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/awe-came-upon-everyone/#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:33:53 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6220 It’s happening again. I’m finding myself underlining everything in Father G’s newest book (Barking to the Choir). The first few pages of chapter 3, “And Awe Came Upon Everyone,” goes like this… Lately, I’ve been taking a leisurely stroll through the Acts of the Apostles. This section of the New Testament is not only a […]

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]]> http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/awe-came-upon-everyone/feed/ 4 The Enriques http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/enriques/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/enriques/#comments Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:00:34 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=4851 If you’ve read Father Greg Boyle’s book Tattoos on the Heart, you know he typically travels with some “homies” (guys who are in the program at Homeboy Industries – leaving the life of gangs, drugs, and violence behind in order to build a new life and career). When Father G came to speak at our annual […]

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]]> http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/enriques/feed/ 8 YOUR PROBLEM IS MY PROBLEM http://www.northwestleader.com/2014/problem-problem/ http://www.northwestleader.com/2014/problem-problem/#comments Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:56:05 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=3843 I love those stories of family, friends, colleagues, co-workers, or classmates, who—in an act of solidarity with one who has lost all their hair because of cancer and radiation treatments—shave their heads too. It’s such a visual and tangible representation of “We’re standing with you in this.” Solidarity is a chosen unity that produces shared […]

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