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the infinite." -Pablo Neruda, So Is My Life, Song
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| published
from June 2004 to September 2005 | Understanding that questions,
frustrations, doubts and anger must be central to any life of integrity
and faith, A Lovers' Quarrel was Dwight Ozard's attempt to
record his thoughts concerning the cultural baggage which seems
to have grafted itself onto spiritual life—particularly in
North America. Dwight, through these musings, committed to speaking
his mind, ridiculing the ridiculous, pointing at and mocking the
emperor's willy, sighing lustily at the bosom of beauty, crying
with the heartbroken, and raging at injustice. |
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Dwight
Ozard
was a writer, speaker, and communications, marketing and
organizational consultant. He traveled the world with
non-profit and for profit organizations, entertainers
and the entertainment industry, politicians, and individuals,
helping them develop creative strategies to, at once,
better tell their stories and find ways to more effectively
use what they do to serve those who have no power, no
voice, no advocates.
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During
his tenure as Director of Communications and Special Events
for Evangelicals
for Social Action (a national, membership-driven,
advocacy agency organizing and appealing on behalf of
theologically conservative but politically progressive
evangelicals), Dwight helped create ESA's award-winning
PRISM magazine, where he earned an international reputation
as a writer of extraordinary sensitivity and courage—capturing
several awards heralding his music criticism, thought-provoking,
honest, and occasionally controversial editorials, and
analysis of the American religious and social landscapes.
His groundbreaking essay, "The Seven Deadly Sins
of Contemporary Christian Music", was heralded by
CCM
Magazine as "crucial, must reading" for
the music community.
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In
the '90s, Dwight was a regular speaker at the Cornerstone
Festival and other large festivals and conferences.
He spoke around the
United States, Canada,
and Central
America—where he came to be recognized as a passionate
advocate and agitator for relevant, redemptive, and playfully
faith-filled cultural engagement and social action.
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Dwight
was also a respected and highly sought-after expert in
communications, marketing, and public relations. Over
the years, he worked with—and for—a wide range
of organizations, ministries, and individuals—from
some of the largest NGOs
in the world (including World
Vision International and World
Vision Canada, Habitat
for Humanity International, DATA),
to some of the world's most recognizable entertainers
and public figures (including Sarah
Michelle Gellar; Randall
Wallace; The
WB Network; the (former) Galloping Gourmet, Graham
Kerr; People
Magazine; Tony
Campolo; Sixpence
None the Richer; Julia
Stiles; Tipper
Gore), to small, focused non-profits and politicians.
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As
a consultant, Ozard was especially recognized for his
insights into the development of "Cultural Capital",
having earned a reputation as one of the most sentient
experts in matching organizations and businesses with
celebrities and artists seeking ways to creatively use
their positions to both respectfully serve those in need
and sensitively raise their profiles and "brands".
Ozard also worked in the music industry—largely in
private—to empower and teach artists to genuinely
serve the needy while remaining true to their callings
as art-makers and communicators.
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A
four-year cancer patient, this native of London,
Ontario,
Canada
was developing several books for publication, including
My Friend Went to Chemotherapy and All I Got Was
This Lousy T-Shirt, a compilation of the journals
and letters that chronicle his ongoing battle with
Multiple
Myeloma. He worked with Graham Kerr on Outdulgence,
a book on living the "good life" as an act
of service. He also collected and wrote a series of
essays, editorials (old and new), and studies to be
published as two companion volumes titled A Lovers'
Quarrel with God and How to be a Worldly Christian
(and Not Go to Hell).
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lived with wife Sheri Blick in Devon,
Pennsylvania. He passed away on November 14, 2005 from complications
related to cancer. |
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