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“We will not be silent”… will we?
Taproot Theatre in Seattle is presently running a play about one of my faith heroes, Sophie Scholl. Along with her brother Hans, these...
Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 11, 20194 min read
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Post Modernity Grows Up, Functioning Shuts Down
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you...
Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 14, 20193 min read
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Facebook, Nazis, and Fake News – History shows our ongoing need for Discernment
Born in Germany and educated both there and at Oxford, Delmer was uniquely qualified to have a foot in both German and British culture, a...
Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 14, 20184 min read
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A Pilgrimage to find Courage
a few of the thousands save by courage, hospitality, and generosity. Every time I travel in Europe I try to read some European history,...
Richard Dahlstrom
Mar 16, 20184 min read
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#metoo
Thanks be to God, the tide is turning. Bill Clinton and Anthony Weiner occurred at a time when they were viewed as isolated incidents...
Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 17, 20174 min read
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Immigration is about Kingdom Ethics, not Party Preference
A letter in the Washington Post This week World Relief bought space in the Washington Post in order to invite President Trump to...
Richard Dahlstrom
Feb 9, 20174 min read
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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...
Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 21, 20163 min read
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Lightening Our Loads: Musings on Genocide in Holy Week
It’s nothing new. And further, it’s nothing new to note that it’s all being done in God’s name by both sides. Giving a soldier a Bible...
Richard Dahlstrom
Mar 22, 20166 min read
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While the world goes mad, Four Things We KNOW
Mourning at a stadium in San Bernadino Behind the holiday lights, both here in Europe and back home in the USA, the waves of unhappy news...
Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 11, 20153 min read
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Dead Flies, and the Overconfidence of Darkness – Early reflections on Paris
“And in His name all oppression shall cease…” These were the lyrics coming from the speakers yesterday afternoon when I discovered...
Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 14, 20155 min read
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All I want for Christmas is: A Vision for Unity
That’s because I live in a different world. I live in a world where I know more and more people who are coming out of closet; they’re...
Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 2, 20144 min read
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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...
Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 19, 20144 min read
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“Boots on the Ground – Or Heads in the Clouds” – The biggest challenge Chris
In two weeks I’ll be home, preparing to meet people in the church I lead who I haven’t seen in nearly three months. Their priceless gift...
Richard Dahlstrom
Oct 11, 20144 min read
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The War of Fog – 3 truths for Living with Clarity in Zero Visibility
We’re waiting for the cable car that will haul us up to the Douglass Hut, the base from which we’ll be hiking over a couple of passes to...
Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 13, 20143 min read
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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...
Richard Dahlstrom
Aug 12, 20143 min read
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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...
Richard Dahlstrom
Jul 17, 20143 min read
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Fashionable Justice is Dangerous
It’s high time that the realities of suffering, racism, oppression, and ongoing injustice rose to the top of our collective...
Richard Dahlstrom
May 6, 20143 min read
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In praise of healthy lament
Dissociative disorder is defined as a “disruption or breakdown of memory, awareness, identity or perception.” It’s a common occurrence...
Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 29, 20146 min read
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World Vision defies Physics: Church’s REACTION is bigger than WV’s action, and sad
equal and opposite reaction. Likely true in the world of matter, but this week evangelicals managed to prove that Newton’s law bears no...
Richard Dahlstrom
Mar 28, 20147 min read
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Real Housewives of Mesopotamia – and what we can learn from them
And so begins a mini drama where Abraham’s wife is taken by force because of her beauty and offered to the harem of the highest leader in...
Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 15, 20144 min read
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