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Celebrate The Victory And Embrace The Burden

Brian Dolleman — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:23:53 +0000

My church celebrates MLK Day each year. Yesterday, our friend Tiffany Bluhm spoke in all three services. She’s an immigrant – adopted from an orphanage in Delhi, India and raised by a white family in an all-white community (for the first 10 years of her life). Tiffany and her husband Derek adopted their son Jericho […]

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He Told Me He Was Muslim & Asked If He Could Attend My Church

Brian Dolleman — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:27:52 +0000

For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. —2 Corinthians 5.19 A few years ago, I noticed a new family at the church – husband and wife along with their three kids. They were good at slipping […]

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We Gotta Pay Attention

Brian Dolleman — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:15:13 +0000

It’s hard to pay attention to something (or someone) you’re not close to. Closeness invites attention. God is the creator of all human beings, with all their differences, their colors, their races, their religions. Be attentive: Every time you draw nearer to your neighbor, you draw nearer to God. Be attentive: Every time you go […]

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Cops, Convicted Felons, Communion, & Church

Brian Dolleman — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:16:28 +0000

*picture above: Barry (left) and Don (right) at church together last night * * * Cops, convicted felons, communion, and church… these concepts might, at first glance, seem like they are worlds apart, but if we pause and think about it long enough, we’ll see how beautifully they go together. Barry […]

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Coretta

Brian Dolleman — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:32:24 +0000

*from A.J. Swoboda’s book A Glorious Dark * * * I think of the Christmas my mom and I flew to Atlanta to visit my dad while he was in treatment. Near the end of our visit, we walked around old downtown Atlanta on a Sunday morning. We entered this […]

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Yes. This Is Still An Issue Today. (Segregation In The Church)

Brian Dolleman — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:25:53 +0000

The headline of an article I read last week shocked me. It announced: Sunday Morning in America Still Segregated – and That’s OK With Worshipers It was the findings of a study conducted by LifeWay Research – and here’s what they had to say… Sunday morning remains one of the most segregated hours in American […]

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Racism & Reconciliation In The Church

Brian Dolleman — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 13:00:02 +0000

Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day – and with that theme in mind, here are two posts I think are worth your time… This post, Everything I Know About Racism I Learned in the Church by Christena Cleveland. The opening paragraph reveals one of Christena’s earliest memories of church: Exasperated, she yelled at the […]

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