Downward Ascent: Intersecting Covid-19 with Holy Week Crosses
Holy Week is an opportunity, because we’re not seeing Jesus through a, “look what he's done for me" lens. This year, the cross is ours too!
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Mar 22, 2020
- 6 min
Corona: Learning to Thrive in our Global Monastery
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. - Blaise Pascal The picture you see here was taken...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Mar 18, 2020
- 4 min
Corona: challenging a post-truth worldview
A survey of the Bible finds that whenever there’s a wholesale disruption to ‘normal life’, God can use it to call us back, not to the way...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Mar 1, 2020
- 5 min
Corona: Disorder as Transformation
people in the Bible who met disorder with enough humility and curiosity to ask God what they should learn come out healthier on the far side
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Feb 6, 2020
- 4 min
In a Post Truth World, the Body matters more
I recently posted a quote on Facebook from a favorite book of mine. It read: What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 24, 2019
- 4 min
Guarding My Heart – Lessons learned from Running Slow
Today I finished a full loop from my tiny house, a full 3.5 miles, with only a little bit of walking and I can safely say that I’m nearly...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 27, 2019
- 4 min
Meditation: Good for your heart - the literal one that pumps
If you're any kind of endurance athlete, you've likely heard of Heart Rate Variability, the notion that when you're least stressed, the...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 27, 2019
- 4 min
Meditation: Good for the heart; the literal one that pumps your blood
Meanwhile, there’s a verse in the Bible that says, “above all else guard your heart”, for from it flow the wellsprings of life.” I’ve...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 18, 2019
- 6 min
The Disciplines of Self Care – (Why your Oxygen mask must go on first)
Years ago I found myself in a debate over an organization’s mission statement. At the time it read, “meeting people at their point of...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jan 5, 2019
- 3 min
Authentic Health: A Good Read to start 2019
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jun 9, 2017
- 4 min
Vicarious vs. Experience: Not Even Close
They would, in other words, rather look on a relationship from the outside, experiencing the hollow thrill of being an observer, rather...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 18, 2016
- 6 min
Into the fog of discipleship…step by step
All right then. It will be a day to put on the touring skis, which means attaching friction creating skins to the base of the skis and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Feb 26, 2016
- 4 min
OE or OE? Choosing the Right Letters for Life
While you drink your tea (TEA!!! ugh), you scan your schedule and realize you have three difficult meetings today and then a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jun 24, 2015
- 4 min
“Not Burdensome”…. musings on the ease of obedience and self-denial
Is self denial a burden? In the coming days, I offer some thoughts from my devotions in Jeremiah. It’s been too long since I’ve written,...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Nov 19, 2014
- 4 min
Pursuing Peace – to what end?
As a result, I’ve had time to think, and the convergence zone of some teaching I’m doing for staff at the church I lead, and my reading...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 25, 2014
- 5 min
Rethinking the Body, Aging, and Movement – 4 Vital Ideas
“we started when we were kids and just never stopped” when are you too old to ride your bike to church? They’re brothers, these two guys...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- May 27, 2014
- 5 min
Achilles Heal: Lessons for life and leadership learned from a tendon
The Achilles story is appropriate because this tendon seems the bane of countless athletes. Anatomy for Runners tells the story of a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- May 14, 2014
- 4 min
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
- Apr 21, 2014
- 4 min
Musings on Boston Strong and why Beating Fear matters so much.
Fear is a net which evil casts over us that we might become ensnared and fall. Those who are afraid have already fallen. D. Bonhoeffer I...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Feb 26, 2014
- 5 min
Setbacks and Overcoming – The first is assured; the second is optional.
sometimes your world gets shattered Dream big and work hard for it, because doing so takes you places — not always where you want, but...
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