“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
- Jan 14, 2019
- 3 min
Post Modernity Grows Up, Functioning Shuts Down
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire. You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 14, 2018
- 4 min
Facebook, Nazis, and Fake News – History shows our ongoing need for Discernment
Born in Germany and educated both there and at Oxford, Delmer was uniquely qualified to have a foot in both German and British culture, a...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Mar 16, 2018
- 4 min
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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Oct 17, 2017
- 4 min
#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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Feb 9, 2017
- 4 min
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, 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
- Mar 22, 2016
- 6 min
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 11, 2015
- 3 min
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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Nov 14, 2015
- 5 min
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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 2, 2014
- 4 min
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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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
- Oct 11, 2014
- 4 min
“Boots on the Ground – Or Heads in the Clouds” – The biggest challenge Chris
In two weeks I’ll be home, preparing to meet people in the church I lead who I haven’t seen in nearly three months. Their priceless gift...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Sep 13, 2014
- 3 min
The War of Fog – 3 truths for Living with Clarity in Zero Visibility
We’re waiting for the cable car that will haul us up to the Douglass Hut, the base from which we’ll be hiking over a couple of passes to...
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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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Richard Dahlstrom
- May 6, 2014
- 3 min
Fashionable Justice is Dangerous
It’s high time that the realities of suffering, racism, oppression, and ongoing injustice rose to the top of our collective...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 29, 2014
- 6 min
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 28, 2014
- 7 min
World Vision defies Physics: Church’s REACTION is bigger than WV’s action, and sad
equal and opposite reaction. Likely true in the world of matter, but this week evangelicals managed to prove that Newton’s law bears no...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jan 15, 2014
- 4 min
Real Housewives of Mesopotamia – and what we can learn from them
And so begins a mini drama where Abraham’s wife is taken by force because of her beauty and offered to the harem of the highest leader in...
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