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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 27, 20102 min read
Modernity, Post-Modernity, and the Limits of Knowing
1. They’ve pointed out the elephant in the room: we don’t KNOW (in the same way we know that we’re reading a blog right now) the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 22, 20103 min read
Our Prayers: Thermometer of our world view…
I recently read a survey that indicated 90% of American men self identify as being “above average fitness” compared to their peers. When...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 19, 20103 min read
Digesting the “Deadly Misunderstanding”
The past decade could have, and perhaps should have been a time for Christians to begin learning about Islam. But that didn’t happen...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 16, 20102 min read
The Book of Eli – an accident needing to happen
The viewer is drawn into a post-apocalyptic world populated by savage survivalists. As the story unfolds, we learn that Eli is carrying...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 15, 20103 min read
The quake: shaking our assumptions?
David Brooks excellent article about this week’s quake in Haiti is a must read. Whether you agree with his diagnosis or not, he shines a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 12, 20103 min read
A case for marriage…
I’d like to spend a few words building the case for marriage, because this institution, like all institutions (it seems) is increasingly...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 9, 20103 min read
The Roman Road: More than you thought?
“Roman Road”. In essence, this declaration of the good news find in Christ was, to use a cooking term, a ‘reduction’. The idea was to...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 5, 20103 min read
10 for 10
1. Exercise – I’m bummed that I’m starting the new year with a couple of injuries that are making my exercise routine more challenging....
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Richard Dahlstrom
Jan 2, 20103 min read
Going backwards in the New Year
Years ago a read a little book called, “The Torch of the Testimony”, and after traveling as a tourist during this past trip in Europe,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 21, 20091 min read
Merry Christmas….
Merry Christmas from Austria… I’ll be on holiday until New Year’s Eve. In the meantime, here’s a gift I’ve shared with my family as a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 16, 20093 min read
Rest and Wounds
After falling last Thursday on the ski slope in Austria, I could barely move. My fall was a mere 150 meters of skiing above the gondola,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 14, 20092 min read
Lessons from the Faithful in Munich…
In case you weren’t at Bethany Community Church yesterday (and even if you were), I thought you’d enjoy this little production, created...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 12, 20092 min read
touching graduation night in Austria… and I love my job
Last night, the students who’d come together twelve weeks ago to begin their Bible School experience, brought it to completion with a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 11, 20090 min read
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 8, 20092 min read
For… a plea for beauty
The normal run of the mill people though? They seemed drawn to the man, which is baffling because they’re not generally drawn to his...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 7, 20092 min read
Warming up to these ideas yet?
The first is about the conference itself, particularly the cries from the far right about the possibilities of dire economic consequences...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 3, 20092 min read
Reflections on first leg of the trip…
In a few minutes I’ll go to class and complete the studies in Genesis with students here, and then board the train for Augsburg, where...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Dec 1, 20093 min read
The Value of Ecumenism, or at least ‘getting along’
school where I’m teaching this week is in the Bavarian region of Germany, a predominantly Catholic part of the country in contrast to the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 30, 20091 min read
Incarnational…
There’s a profound sense in which Bonhoeffer’s return to Germany becomes a powerful and rich example of the very thing we celebrate at...
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Richard Dahlstrom
Nov 29, 20093 min read
Defining our faith by the gear…
climber or poser? As I travelled from Munich to Friedrichschaffen on the train yesterday, I felt a little out of place because the truth...
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