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 8, 2020
- 5 min
Making Friends with Doubt
We have a religious world and a real world...and I sometimes think we care more about our religious world than our real world
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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
- Dec 15, 2018
- 4 min
Seasons of Life and Lessons in Staying and Letting Go
left to right: Martin, Director of Tauernhof, Richard, Charlie, board member of Tauernhof. “Stay a little longer” my friend Martin...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 20, 2017
- 4 min
The Cultural Faith Crises of Burnt/Raw pancakes
What does the pornography problem in the Bible belt, and the appalling lack of generosity among democrats have to do with a burnt/raw...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 12, 2017
- 4 min
United Airlines, Holy Week, and Missing the Forest for the trees
Behavior needs to match mission, right? They did it “according to the book”. With too many passengers and not enough seats, they asked...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 5, 2016
- 6 min
Mythical Freedom and Real Freedom
But what does “the land of the free” really mean? And in what sense are we free? The questions weren’t political for me this year but...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Oct 6, 2015
- 2 min
When shoot happens… what happens next?
By now, unless the shooting is personal, we Americans know the drill quite well. Our president will stand up and talk about the need for...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 17, 2014
- 4 min
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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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
- Oct 18, 2014
- 5 min
After Failure – The next steps matter most. What to avoid and what to do.
Failure isn’t really the main problem in this world. There are remedies for failures, and often clear steps to take so that in the wake...
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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
- Jul 14, 2014
- 5 min
“A different plan” – Three Postures you need when Change Comes Knocking
It was supposed to be the Cascades… I spoke with a couple last week who lost their child to cancer at the age of six. As we talked of...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jun 6, 2014
- 3 min
From Germany to Seattle – finding hope in the midst of grief
My oldest daughter is a Seattle Pacific Alum and writes from Germany this morning as she ponders the tragic shootings here in Seattle and...
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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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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 18, 2013
- 3 min
“For All People…” Why the Radical Inclusiveness of Christmas matters.
When the angel announced good news of great joy for all people, the angel opened the door for a feisty conversation about who’s in and...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 5, 2013
- 3 min
When Life produces Too Much Life: The Value of Quitting
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. – Michael Porter There’s a forest in m Too many trees. Too many buds on the vine. ...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jun 3, 2011
- 3 min
Glory, tragedy, and lessons…from the final minute.
“stoppage time.” I’ve been waiting, since moving back to the Pacific Northwest in 1984, for Vancouver’s Canucks to win their first-ever...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 30, 2011
- 3 min
In secret: the value of humility and anonymity
In my readings for the upcoming symposium of faith and science that I’m attending, I’ve discovered that the deeper one goes down the...
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