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Toward Wholeness Blog

Mar 30, 20194 min read

Seattle is Dying…for a third way view of justice

If you care about poverty, homelessness, mental illness, drug addiction, or the morale of law enforcement, I hope you find some time to...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Oct 17, 20174 min read

#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...

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Steal, Kill, and Destroy – stealing our unity

Richard Dahlstrom

Sep 7, 20174 min read

Steal, Kill, and Destroy – stealing our unity

I understand that the literalists will have a problem with Rohr’s statement, but the point is essentially accurate: Our divisions are...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Jul 6, 20174 min read

Fire: Getting it and Keeping it

Before burning season is over, though, we’re already on the prowl for new wood for the next season. It must be found, cut into pieces...

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Words Matter: It’s high time we believe that!

Richard Dahlstrom

Jun 30, 20175 min read

Words Matter: It’s high time we believe that!

I wrote it out on an index card and put it in my pocket. It served me well during those tumultuous days, when I was feeling socially...

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Immigration is about Kingdom Ethics, not Party Preference

Richard Dahlstrom

Feb 9, 20174 min read

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...

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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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“Adventures in Saying Yes” was the best read of the summer because…

Richard Dahlstrom

Aug 18, 20163 min read

“Adventures in Saying Yes” was the best read of the summer because…

“Speaking of Jesus”, which is one of my favorite books, precisely because the author has a knack for telling people about Jesus as if...

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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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Richard Dahlstrom

Sep 2, 20155 min read

Immigration and the Better Shelter

“when the raft in the ocean is safer than our home, we’ll go” With the train station closed in Budapest, over 70 dead in a truck on the...

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Beauty and Brokenness – Living in the Tension

Richard Dahlstrom

Dec 17, 20144 min read

Beauty and Brokenness – Living in the Tension

I’m happy to offer a repost today of something offered earlier this summer during my sabbatical because it seems so very appropriate...

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Rhythm: Why You Need it – How you get it.

Richard Dahlstrom

Dec 12, 20144 min read

Rhythm: Why You Need it – How you get it.

I’m sitting here on my weekly day of Sabbath, staring out the window at fir trees laden with wet, dripping life down onto the soil and...

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All I want for Christmas is: A Vision for Unity

Richard Dahlstrom

Dec 2, 20144 min read

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...

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The Pig Lady from Iowa: What the church and pastors MUST learn from the 2014 election

Richard Dahlstrom

Nov 5, 20144 min read

The Pig Lady from Iowa: What the church and pastors MUST learn from the 2014 election

The sad truth is that, even by their own admission, politicians and the machinery that work so hard to get them elected, had no interest...

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Coming off the mountain: Ebola, Suicide, and Terror

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

Apr 29, 20146 min read

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...

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Richard Dahlstrom

Mar 4, 20145 min read

When “Here” is better than “There”

I wake up this morning in Colorado and, as is typical, make my coffee and then go to my ipad where I catch up on the news before reading...

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If soil could talk… life lessons from the history of a lake

Richard Dahlstrom

Dec 5, 20133 min read

If soil could talk… life lessons from the history of a lake

lake. It’s about a half mile down to the park on the waterfront and when I arrive, the suns maybe 15 minutes from dipping below the Alps...

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Dousing the flames of hypocrisy: The Big Value of Small Ideas

Richard Dahlstrom

Sep 25, 20134 min read

Dousing the flames of hypocrisy: The Big Value of Small Ideas

And there are lots of other ideas as well, tens of thousands of “medium ideas” that have been shaping forces in still significant ways: ...

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