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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 16, 20163 min read
The Gifts of Christmas #4: Jesus breaks dividing walls
With fears of “the other” on the rise, a look at Jesus life, from beginning to end, is like a drink of fresh cold water in the midst of...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Feb 22, 20112 min read
Fantasy: A Door That’s Closing—And Why We Should Keep It Open
As Dennis Haack writes, “Right up to the medieval age, the church believed that fantasy creatures, sorcerers, ghouls, goblins, and ghosts...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 15, 20113 min read
Thawing my heart in the heat of Africa….
Good morning God… I’m back in Seattle. I remember being in the thick of my time there – tired, hungry, annoyed by sweat and bugs and the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 24, 20103 min read
Curious…
There’s much to learn from those who lived well during those days, and as I read about Bonhoeffer, I’m struck by the degree to which his...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 16, 20103 min read
The Perfect Storm: Finding Liberty in Simplicity
shoeless shoes, pondering the fresh health I’m enjoying in my running because I’ve been liberated from the belief that the foot needs...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 18, 20102 min read
Getting to “Why”
sixty minutes offered a remarkable example of the power of vision. This is worth watching! Gustavo Dudamel is the new Venezuelan...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 14, 20101 min read
Water Wednesdays
It would be easy, for many of us, to just write a check on May 23rd, 50 days after Easter, and call it a success. But success, in this...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Mar 24, 20103 min read
Sowing Resurrection Seeds…
In spite of all this, it was only today that I was really struck by the fact this guy wasn’t very careful about where he put his seeds....
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 27, 20102 min read
Modernity, Post-Modernity, and the Limits of Knowing
1. They’ve pointed out the elephant in the room: we don’t KNOW (in the same way we know that we’re reading a blog right now) the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 8, 20092 min read
For… a plea for beauty
The normal run of the mill people though? They seemed drawn to the man, which is baffling because they’re not generally drawn to his...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 3, 20092 min read
Reflections on first leg of the trip…
In a few minutes I’ll go to class and complete the studies in Genesis with students here, and then board the train for Augsburg, where...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 28, 20093 min read
U2 and the Unfashionable Cross
My concern resides in our age old tendency to reshape the gospel so that it matches our own personal ideals and passions, with the result...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 27, 20093 min read
Lessons from Europe…
This November/December I’ll once again be spending some time in Germany and Austria, teaching at two different Bible Colleges. During...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 24, 20094 min read
Marriage: Away it goes
30 years and counting It’s an amazing time in history. On the one hand, we’re seeing movement on the part of same-sex couples to have...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 7, 20092 min read
questions…bridges…life
Welcome… After blogging for years over at blogspot (where you can find all the old stuff about movies, sexuality, politics, faith, doubt,...
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