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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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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 13, 20195 min read
40 – thoughts on marriage after 40 years of it
We’ve always tried to spend less than we make. Eat by candlelight as often as possible (even when you don’t want to. Sometimes just...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 19, 20184 min read
The Sacred Art of Unlearning
My granddaughter moved in a few weeks ago. O yeah – my daughter and son-in-law moved in too, but I’m writing about my granddaughter...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 22, 20183 min read
The Collapse of Everything, and Why it’s a Source of Hope
Plunge your pole, hard, into the place you anticipate placing your foot. Look carefully. Step quickly. Go! They’ve collapsed under my...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 4, 20173 min read
38 thoughts on Marriage after 38 years.
My wife and I celebrated 38 years of married life yesterday. Here are 38 thoughts on what’s contributed to our marriage not just...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 10, 20174 min read
Steal, Kill, and Destroy – Stealing our Healthy Sexual Identity
Continuing in a series of looking at ways in which the gifts God wants us to know and enjoy are stolen from us, this entry and the next...
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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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Richard Dahlstrom
May 31, 20171 min read
37 Years married and Still Enjoying Eros: Here’s How
God affirms eros. Healthy eros requires a cocktail of practices on a regular basis, including affirmation, invitation, respecting each...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 14, 20161 min read
The Gifts of Christmas: #2 – Free! Can’t be bought, only received!
Give, give, give, means that there can be only one response. Receive, receive, receive. We can’t earn the gift that is Christ. We’ll...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 21, 20163 min read
A letter to men:
Words matter. Mr. Trump spoke on the bus about making unwanted sexual advances and literally grabbing women. He spoke to Howard Stern...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Feb 10, 20164 min read
Finding Peace instead of Chocolate
The stress is about some frustrations regarding Christians fighting each other. It’s about questions regarding the future because even...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 21, 20154 min read
“Godspell” – Musings on the power of Art in God’s World
I’m 19 and a good friend had landed the part of Jesus in Godspell, so he invites me to see him on opening night. It’s been two years...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 6, 20156 min read
While you were living…the unconscious nature of transformation
Schladming for a little bit of rest before I head up to England for a week of speaking at Capernwray Hall. The week is a break in the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 1, 20154 min read
Steps to Peace – Jesus’ style (part 1)
“Peace be to you” says Jesus, standing in the midst of the disciples, in a room with a locked door where he’s suddenly appeared without...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Mar 21, 20154 min read
Revival Story… My Loss and Recovery of Love
Truth be told though, the ocean of details can conspire with my own Type A personality and propensity to get anxious about stuff, and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 23, 20144 min read
Lessons and Gifts from my Mom at Christmas
The story exemplifies the spirit of many who lived through the Great Depression and fought a World War in Europe and Asia at the same...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 23, 20145 min read
Five Values for Sustainable Leadership (pt 2).
just to be loved… can it be enough? My previous post offered the first two of five essential values for leaders to nurture and develop if...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 7, 20144 min read
35 thoughts on marriage, after 35 years
Today I’ll get on a bus with my wife and travel from Freiberg, Germany to Munich and then a train from there to Schladming, Austria, on...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 12, 20143 min read
Coming off the mountain: Ebola, Suicide, and Terror
These prayers, though, are also very provincial. They’re about our real situation because mostly, this is what we know about when we’re...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 17, 20143 min read
Obscurity has its privileges. Answers to feelings of insignificance.
In just a few short days, my wife and I will be off to Europe where we’ll trek through the Alps, fully expecting to find the fingerprints...
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