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
- Sep 13, 2019
- 5 min
40 – thoughts on marriage after 40 years of it
We’ve always tried to spend less than we make. Eat by candlelight as often as possible (even when you don’t want to. Sometimes just...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 19, 2018
- 4 min
The Sacred Art of Unlearning
My granddaughter moved in a few weeks ago. O yeah – my daughter and son-in-law moved in too, but I’m writing about my granddaughter...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- May 22, 2018
- 3 min
The Collapse of Everything, and Why it’s a Source of Hope
Plunge your pole, hard, into the place you anticipate placing your foot. Look carefully. Step quickly. Go! They’ve collapsed under my...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 4, 2017
- 3 min
38 thoughts on Marriage after 38 years.
My wife and I celebrated 38 years of married life yesterday. Here are 38 thoughts on what’s contributed to our marriage not just...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 10, 2017
- 4 min
Steal, Kill, and Destroy – Stealing our Healthy Sexual Identity
Continuing in a series of looking at ways in which the gifts God wants us to know and enjoy are stolen from us, this entry and the next...
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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
- May 31, 2017
- 1 min
37 Years married and Still Enjoying Eros: Here’s How
God affirms eros. Healthy eros requires a cocktail of practices on a regular basis, including affirmation, invitation, respecting each...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 14, 2016
- 1 min
The Gifts of Christmas: #2 – Free! Can’t be bought, only received!
Give, give, give, means that there can be only one response. Receive, receive, receive. We can’t earn the gift that is Christ. We’ll...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Oct 21, 2016
- 3 min
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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Feb 10, 2016
- 4 min
Finding Peace instead of Chocolate
The stress is about some frustrations regarding Christians fighting each other. It’s about questions regarding the future because even...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 21, 2015
- 4 min
“Godspell” – Musings on the power of Art in God’s World
I’m 19 and a good friend had landed the part of Jesus in Godspell, so he invites me to see him on opening night. It’s been two years...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 6, 2015
- 6 min
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
- Apr 1, 2015
- 4 min
Steps to Peace – Jesus’ style (part 1)
“Peace be to you” says Jesus, standing in the midst of the disciples, in a room with a locked door where he’s suddenly appeared without...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Mar 21, 2015
- 4 min
Revival Story… My Loss and Recovery of Love
Truth be told though, the ocean of details can conspire with my own Type A personality and propensity to get anxious about stuff, and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 23, 2014
- 4 min
Lessons and Gifts from my Mom at Christmas
The story exemplifies the spirit of many who lived through the Great Depression and fought a World War in Europe and Asia at the same...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 23, 2014
- 5 min
Five Values for Sustainable Leadership (pt 2).
just to be loved… can it be enough? My previous post offered the first two of five essential values for leaders to nurture and develop if...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 7, 2014
- 4 min
35 thoughts on marriage, after 35 years
Today I’ll get on a bus with my wife and travel from Freiberg, Germany to Munich and then a train from there to Schladming, Austria, on...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 12, 2014
- 3 min
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
- Jul 17, 2014
- 3 min
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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