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Dec 31, 20195 min read

Two Good Reads for the New Year

The first book that’s both inspiring and challenging me is “The Wisdom of the Native Americans” Kent Nerburn has compiled a variety of...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Dec 12, 20193 min read

Losing and Finding Our Truest Self

You know the sayings? “Old gardeners never die; they just recede” or “Old realtors never die; they just become listless.” They’re ways...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Apr 11, 20194 min read

“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...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Nov 15, 20183 min read

The Fight for Hope: A Life Worth Living

My temptation in such times is what sociologists call ‘cocooning’, a tendency to withdraw into the predictability of our homes, close the...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Mar 16, 20184 min read

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,...

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The Disco Ball of Success, and What to do when You’re Blinded by it

Richard Dahlstrom

Dec 2, 201712 min read

The Disco Ball of Success, and What to do when You’re Blinded by it

Here’s a free chapter for all those folks you know in your lives who have walked the road of success for a bit of distance and are both...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Nov 25, 20174 min read

Sustainable Faith requires Practices

On Sunday November 25th I’ll be speaking at all our Bethany locations on the very important subject of how to turn spiritual disciplines...

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Let the Journey Begin – An invitation to travel to the Alps with me

Richard Dahlstrom

Nov 4, 20172 min read

Let the Journey Begin – An invitation to travel to the Alps with me

“Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all” is how Helen Keller put it. She’s was onto something, surely. When Dave...

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Beating Fear with Seven Words for Seven Summits

Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 25, 20168 min read

Beating Fear with Seven Words for Seven Summits

NOTE: This is from a chapter entitled, “Exposure”. I deal with the deadly life shrinking nature of fear in this post. Sorry it’s...

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Lightening Our Loads: Musings on Genocide in Holy Week

Richard Dahlstrom

Mar 22, 20166 min read

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...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Dec 24, 20154 min read

The Light has Come: So Lighten Up!

“snow on snow” (12 feet, or 4 meters for my Europe friends) as the Christmas carol says, the house was dark because the power had gone...

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While the world goes mad, Four Things We KNOW

Richard Dahlstrom

Dec 11, 20153 min read

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...

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Dead Flies, and the Overconfidence of Darkness – Early reflections on Paris

Richard Dahlstrom

Nov 14, 20155 min read

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...

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While you were living…the unconscious nature of transformation

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

Sep 19, 20142 min read

Last Journey’s the Best

It’s our last hike, the end of our forty days trekking through the Alps together. I’ll begin teaching next week and thinking about...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Aug 11, 20144 min read

Fiercely Interdependent

My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were nearly the last people to...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Aug 11, 20144 min read

Fiercely Interdependent

Fiercely Interdependent – My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were...

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Obscurity has its privileges. Answers to feelings of insignificance.

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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Success, Sabbaticals, Loss, and Heading to the Alps

Richard Dahlstrom

May 9, 20147 min read

Success, Sabbaticals, Loss, and Heading to the Alps

If success is a mountain, I’m an accidental climber. Has it ever happened to you? You’ve been working hard for goals you believe in for...

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Richard Dahlstrom

May 8, 20142 min read

Life is a Journey: Step by Step

There’s a hearing. It comes to us in dreams, or songs, or after a conversation in the corner booth of a Tuesday night with the one we...

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