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Downward Ascent: Intersecting Covid-19 with Holy Week Crosses

Richard Dahlstrom

Apr 4, 20205 min read

Downward Ascent: Intersecting Covid-19 with Holy Week Crosses

Holy Week is an opportunity, because we’re not seeing Jesus through a, “look what he's done for me" lens. This year, the cross is ours too!

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Corona: Learning to Thrive in our Global Monastery

Richard Dahlstrom

Mar 22, 20206 min read

Corona: Learning to Thrive in our Global Monastery

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. - Blaise Pascal The picture you see here was taken...

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Corona: challenging a post-truth worldview

Richard Dahlstrom

Mar 18, 20204 min read

Corona: challenging a post-truth worldview

A survey of the Bible finds that whenever there’s a wholesale disruption to ‘normal life’, God can use it to call us back, not to the way...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Mar 1, 20205 min read

Corona: Disorder as Transformation

people in the Bible who met disorder with enough humility and curiosity to ask God what they should learn come out healthier on the far side

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In a Post Truth World, the Body matters more

Richard Dahlstrom

Feb 6, 20204 min read

In a Post Truth World, the Body matters more

I recently posted a quote on Facebook from a favorite book of mine. It read: What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Aug 24, 20194 min read

Guarding My Heart – Lessons learned from Running Slow

Today I finished a full loop from my tiny house, a full 3.5 miles, with only a little bit of walking and I can safely say that I’m nearly...

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Meditation: Good for your heart - the literal one that pumps

Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 27, 20194 min read

Meditation: Good for your heart - the literal one that pumps

If you're any kind of endurance athlete, you've likely heard of Heart Rate Variability, the notion that when you're least stressed, the...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 27, 20194 min read

Meditation: Good for the heart; the literal one that pumps your blood

Meanwhile, there’s a verse in the Bible that says, “above all else guard your heart”, for from it flow the wellsprings of life.” I’ve...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 18, 20196 min read

The Disciplines of Self Care – (Why your Oxygen mask must go on first)

Years ago I found myself in a debate over an organization’s mission statement. At the time it read, “meeting people at their point of...

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Authentic Health: A Good Read to start 2019

Richard Dahlstrom

Jan 5, 20193 min read

Authentic Health: A Good Read to start 2019

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming...

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Vicarious vs. Experience: Not Even Close

Richard Dahlstrom

Jun 9, 20174 min read

Vicarious vs. Experience: Not Even Close

They would, in other words, rather look on a relationship from the outside, experiencing the hollow thrill of being an observer, rather...

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Into the fog of discipleship…step by step

Richard Dahlstrom

Apr 18, 20166 min read

Into the fog of discipleship…step by step

All right then. It will be a day to put on the touring skis, which means attaching friction creating skins to the base of the skis and...

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OE or OE? Choosing the Right Letters for Life

Richard Dahlstrom

Feb 26, 20164 min read

OE or OE? Choosing the Right Letters for Life

While you drink your tea (TEA!!! ugh), you scan your schedule and realize you have three difficult meetings today and then a...

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“Not Burdensome”…. musings on the ease of obedience and self-denial

Richard Dahlstrom

Jun 24, 20154 min read

“Not Burdensome”…. musings on the ease of obedience and self-denial

Is self denial a burden? In the coming days, I offer some thoughts from my devotions in Jeremiah. It’s been too long since I’ve written,...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Nov 19, 20144 min read

Pursuing Peace – to what end?

As a result, I’ve had time to think, and the convergence zone of some teaching I’m doing for staff at the church I lead, and my reading...

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Rethinking the Body, Aging, and Movement – 4 Vital Ideas

Richard Dahlstrom

Sep 25, 20145 min read

Rethinking the Body, Aging, and Movement – 4 Vital Ideas

“we started when we were kids and just never stopped” when are you too old to ride your bike to church? They’re brothers, these two guys...

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Achilles Heal: Lessons for life and leadership learned from a tendon

Richard Dahlstrom

May 27, 20145 min read

Achilles Heal: Lessons for life and leadership learned from a tendon

The Achilles story is appropriate because this tendon seems the bane of countless athletes. Anatomy for Runners tells the story of a...

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Why “fear of death tomorrow” prevents “joy of life today”

Richard Dahlstrom

May 14, 20144 min read

Why “fear of death tomorrow” prevents “joy of life today”

a book about the importance of opening oneself to direct encounter with creation, in preparation for a 40 day hike in the Alps this...

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Musings on Boston Strong and why Beating Fear matters so much.

Richard Dahlstrom

Apr 21, 20144 min read

Musings on Boston Strong and why Beating Fear matters so much.

Fear is a net which evil casts over us that we might become ensnared and fall. Those who are afraid have already fallen. D. Bonhoeffer I...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Feb 26, 20145 min read

Setbacks and Overcoming – The first is assured; the second is optional.

sometimes your world gets shattered Dream big and work hard for it, because doing so takes you places — not always where you want, but...

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