Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » Popular https://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Dancing In The Wind https://www.northwestleader.com/2022/dancing-wind/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2022/dancing-wind/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2022 15:57:26 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6813 What follows is the manuscript of my sermon – the first in a new series entitled, “Stretchy, Not Sketchy: Honest Conversations About Faith,” in which I attempt to make the case for a vibrant, living, growing faith that is flexible rather than being fundamentalist (rigid, inflexible). The video of the sermon is also available to […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/book/feed/ 1 13 Things I’m Learning In 13 Years Of Being Ashah’s Daddy https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/13-things-im-learning-13-years-ashahs-daddy/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/13-things-im-learning-13-years-ashahs-daddy/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2014 16:18:48 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=4308 Today is Ashah Joy Elizabeth’s 13th birthday… so here are 13 things I am learning in my 13 years of being Ashah’s Daddy: Feeling ready to be a good dad isn’t necessary to be one. I didn’t feel ready. I was insecure and unsure about how to be a parent—but when she arrived, I fell […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/cigarette-butts-pride/feed/ 3 Men Need To Hear What Women Have To Say (Why Patriarchy Is Still A Problem) https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/men-need-hear-women-say-patriarchy-still-problem/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/men-need-hear-women-say-patriarchy-still-problem/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:49:58 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=4023 Patriarchy has been around forever – and it is still here today. According to Webster: Patriarchy is… social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line; control by men of a disproportionately […]

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