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Lent Day 16… Meeting Kahal From Iran In MacArthur Park Was Perhaps What Churchy People Call A Divine Appointment

Brian Dolleman — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:18:11 +0000

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it! —Hebrews. 13.2 Yesterday our team went with the L.A. Dream Center to MacArthur Park to hand out bags of food. I’ve been to this park before… In fact, I wrote a little something about my experience […]

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Lent Day 15… I Never Thought I’d Be On The Other Side

Brian Dolleman — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:10:37 +0000

One of the things we’ve been doing each day with the L.A. Dream Center is what they call “Food Truck Ministry.” You might be thinking of food trucks – like those delicious distributors of various types of food in busy downtown street corners during lunch time… but this is a little different. The food is […]

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The Final Word Is Love

Brian Dolleman — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:30:02 +0000

*pictured above: my friend Reggie who was over-the-moon happy to come help get the church ready for our Sunday services. Some powerful thoughts from Dorothy Day… The final word is love. The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in […]

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A Different Kind Of Success

Brian Dolleman — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 16:05:53 +0000

picture above: Ashah, myself, and my dad – with my grandmother who has dementia. From Jean Vanier… A leader of one of our communities told me about his mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. But the person this man wanted to talk to me about was not his mother but his father. He had been […]

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The Small Kindnesses

Brian Dolleman — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:00:30 +0000

In a letter Jean Vanier wrote, he issued this challenge… To be believe that each gesture has its weight in the balance of love and hate in the world. A few weeks after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, Stephen Jay Gould wrote in the NY Times: “Good and kind people outnumber all others by thousands to […]

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Do You Know What God Dreams About?

Brian Dolleman — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:34:36 +0000

*this post comes from Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s children’s book God’s Dream Dear child of God, what do you dream about in your loveliest of dreams? Do you dream about flying high or rainbows reaching across the sky? Do you dream about being free to do what your heart desires? Or about being treated like […]

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Thinking About What We Praise Our Kids The Most For

Brian Dolleman — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:00:15 +0000

The picture above shows London Hagebusch carrying a heavy bag of groceries. Just behind her is Haven Wheeler. And a number of other children were there too… They were helping at our Thanksgiving Grocery Give Stuffing Party – it’s the event the day before the event. We ask people to come set everything up for the […]

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Confusing Anger With Kindness

Brian Dolleman — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:00:02 +0000

I read this poem by Rupi Kaur that spoke to me as a man, a father of a daughter, and a pastor. * * * * to fathers with daughters every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger […]

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Human Film: Life After Death, Love, Kindness

Brian Dolleman — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:00:49 +0000

Here are 3 incredible excerpts from HUMAN, the new film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand… Life After Death Love From the Most Unlikely Place Kindness Can Come From Anywhere

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This is the World I Want to Live in.

Brian Dolleman — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:11:21 +0000

My friend Jackie Frazier shared this beautiful story with me, so now of course I want to share it with you. It’s entitled “Gate A-4″ by Naomi Shihab Nye – the poet, songwriter, and novelist – born to a Palestinian father and an American mother… she calls herself “a wandering poet.” Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport […]

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