Reviews 2/3

Toward Wholeness Blog

Lessons I’m learning in 2016. #1 – Sleep and Rest

Richard Dahlstrom

Jan 22, 20163 min read

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...

9 views0 comments

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...

16 views0 comments

Inside Out: In Praise of the Gift of Sadness

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...

10 views0 comments

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...

16 views0 comments

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...

8 views0 comments

Faith, Sight, and Cairnes on trails: Examining the “historical” Jesus in the bestseller

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...

5 views0 comments

Brownie Points: Colorful considerations of race, class, and community

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...

4 views0 comments

Messiah complex and conventional wisdom: a marriage made in hell

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...

4 views0 comments

California, meet Rwanda – and learn about justice, reconciliation, and prisons

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...

3 views0 comments

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...

3 views0 comments

Weekend links: Bin Laden de-brief and book news

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...

5 views0 comments

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...

9 views0 comments

The King’s Speech on D-day eve: A reference point for departure

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...

62 views0 comments

Fantasy: A Door That’s Closing—And Why We Should Keep It Open

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...

12 views0 comments

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...

17 views0 comments

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...

4 views0 comments

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...

5 views0 comments

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...

9 views0 comments

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...

8 views0 comments

Fastballs and Faith: The Cords That Tied Our Family Together

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...

4 views0 comments

Wholeness Blog: Blog2