Lessons I’m learning in 2016. #1 – Sleep and Rest
I don’t know if it’s the 60 thing, or some other winds of change blowing through the soul these days, but this birthday unfolded...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 7, 20152 min read
The Art of Work: Timely Truth for Today
If finding our destiny is one of the best things we can do, then reading, “The Art of Work” by Jeff Goins is one of the best books we can...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 29, 20154 min read
Inside Out: In Praise of the Gift of Sadness
You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move...
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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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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 4, 20143 min read
Walter Mitty and the Art of Waking Up
For Walter Mitty, masterfully played by Ben Stiller, the push comes in the form of a missing film negative. He’s the “negatives accounts...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Sep 11, 20134 min read
Faith, Sight, and Cairnes on trails: Examining the “historical” Jesus in the bestseller
At the outset, Aslan shares his testimony of becoming a Christian, and then his predictable college deconstruction of his faith, as he...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jun 10, 20112 min read
Brownie Points: Colorful considerations of race, class, and community
It’s true. It’s also true that the ‘everyone’ of whom Plato is speaking includes me, and you, and each of us. This makes his admonition...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 28, 20114 min read
Messiah complex and conventional wisdom: a marriage made in hell
trying to do everything everyone wants is killing us Two books found their way into my world this spring, and their convergence has...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 24, 20113 min read
California, meet Rwanda – and learn about justice, reconciliation, and prisons
The Supreme Court ruling this week in California will require the release or transfer of 33,000 prison convicts in order to reduce...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 10, 20113 min read
Why now? Why hope? Why colors? Why art?
The book, as many of you already know, is called The Colors of Hope. You can read a free chapter here. You can join a Facebook...
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Richard Dahlstrom
May 7, 20113 min read
Weekend links: Bin Laden de-brief and book news
I don’t know if you heard anything about this, but Bin Laden was killed this past week. Yep… some Navy SEALs snuck into the Pakistan and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 13, 20112 min read
Thanks Dietrich…words for the ages
To live faithfully is to live 'fully present in this world' Last night I was privileged to participate in a panel discussion about the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Apr 8, 20113 min read
The King’s Speech on D-day eve: A reference point for departure
Conversations continued for a long time, ranging from the significance of God’s breath of life breathed into Adam in Genesis 2, to more...
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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
Feb 7, 20113 min read
How to pray when it’s all “too much”
“This is my life” you say, punctuating the observation sometimes with a question mark, and other times with an exclamation point and an...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Feb 4, 20113 min read
The best way to move: “Stay Put”
In “The Wisdom of Stability”, the author draws on both his own experience, and the testimony of church history to declare that there’s...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Feb 2, 20112 min read
“If your right hand causes you to stumble…” 127 Hours of Redemption
Other than that Letterman interview nearly eight years ago, I’d known nothing of Aron’s story, until Saturday night, when I attended “127...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 31, 20103 min read
Reading matters: What’s on your list?
1. Revelation 2. Our response to revelation A lot of revelation in our lives is pre-determined. We don’t choose our families, 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 2, 20103 min read
Fastballs and Faith: The Cords That Tied Our Family Together
That changed when the Giants relocated the San Francisco, and the Dodgers took up residence in Los Angeles, giving birth to a rivalry...
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