Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » Mother Teresa https://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Maybe We Need To Recover Our Imagination https://www.northwestleader.com/2018/maybe-need-recover-imagination/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2018/maybe-need-recover-imagination/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:00:38 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6374 *photo above: Scott Erickson painting during his one-man show “We Are Not Troubled Guests” at NWLife’s Together Night   Sometimes I wonder, have we lost our imagination? Stewart Henderson, in his poem I Believe says, ‪Propagandists are excellent mimics But don’t expect them to say anything original. I believe in doubt I believe doubt is […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2018/maybe-need-recover-imagination/feed/ 2 Lent Day 34… Maybe You Weren’t Made For Greatness https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-34-maybe-werent-made-greatness/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-34-maybe-werent-made-greatness/#comments Sat, 08 Apr 2017 13:00:14 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6057 Question: does a palm tree have to be “great” in order for it to be valuable, useful, beautiful, or special? Does it matter if it is the tallest or fastest or largest? Do we need palm tree competitions and palm tree awards to validate their existence? God does not demand that I be successful. God […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-34-maybe-werent-made-greatness/feed/ 5 Lent Day 7… Have We Fallen Out Of Belonging? https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-7-fallen-belonging/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-7-fallen-belonging/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2017 13:00:21 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5908  Although we are many, we are one in Christ—and we belong to one another. —Romans 12.5 Sebastian Junger, in his fascinating book TRIBE: On Homecoming and Belonging, says: “Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It’s time for that to end. To say it bluntly, modern society seems to emphasize extrinsic […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-7-fallen-belonging/feed/ 3 Why I’m Choosing Beautiful As My Word For 2016 https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/im-choosing-beautiful-word-2016/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/im-choosing-beautiful-word-2016/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:00:30 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5216 Each year, for the past several years, I’ve chosen a word or theme or idea to inspire and influence me. A couple of years ago, my word was HUSTLE (not like the illegal sales of drugs or conning people – but the idea of working hard, showing up early, staying late… stuff like that). Last […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/im-choosing-beautiful-word-2016/feed/ 2 Commit The Neighbor = Me Fiction Until… https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/commit-neighbor-fiction/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/commit-neighbor-fiction/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:21:27 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5127 One of our greatest human traits is compassion, which means, literally, “to suffer with another.” But this high art is seldom born in an instant as a response to watching the TV “news,” or even in response to firsthand experience. More often compassion’s seeds are sewn via a preliminary magic known as empathy. And empathy […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/commit-neighbor-fiction/feed/ 0 So The Whole World Falls In https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/whole-world-falls/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/whole-world-falls/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:49:49 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5115 Evangelism as embodied by Jesus… implies the all-embracing love evident in Mother Teresa’s prayer: May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in. Not just her fellow nuns, Catholics, Calcuttans, potential converts. The whole world. It gives me pause to realize that, were such a prayer said by me and answered by […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/whole-world-falls/feed/ 1 YOUR PROBLEM IS MY PROBLEM https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/problem-problem/ https://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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