Two Good Reads for the New Year
The first book that’s both inspiring and challenging me is “The Wisdom of the Native Americans” Kent Nerburn has compiled a variety of...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Dec 12, 2019
- 3 min
Losing and Finding Our Truest Self
You know the sayings? “Old gardeners never die; they just recede” or “Old realtors never die; they just become listless.” They’re ways...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Apr 11, 2019
- 4 min
“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
- Nov 15, 2018
- 3 min
The Fight for Hope: A Life Worth Living
My temptation in such times is what sociologists call ‘cocooning’, a tendency to withdraw into the predictability of our homes, close the...
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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
- Dec 2, 2017
- 12 min
The Disco Ball of Success, and What to do when You’re Blinded by it
Here’s a free chapter for all those folks you know in your lives who have walked the road of success for a bit of distance and are both...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Nov 25, 2017
- 4 min
Sustainable Faith requires Practices
On Sunday November 25th I’ll be speaking at all our Bethany locations on the very important subject of how to turn spiritual disciplines...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Nov 4, 2017
- 2 min
Let the Journey Begin – An invitation to travel to the Alps with me
“Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all” is how Helen Keller put it. She’s was onto something, surely. When Dave...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Jul 25, 2016
- 8 min
Beating Fear with Seven Words for Seven Summits
NOTE: This is from a chapter entitled, “Exposure”. I deal with the deadly life shrinking nature of fear in this post. Sorry it’s...
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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 24, 2015
- 4 min
The Light has Come: So Lighten Up!
“snow on snow” (12 feet, or 4 meters for my Europe friends) as the Christmas carol says, the house was dark because the power had gone...
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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
- 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
- Sep 19, 2014
- 2 min
Last Journey’s the Best
It’s our last hike, the end of our forty days trekking through the Alps together. I’ll begin teaching next week and thinking about...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 11, 2014
- 4 min
Fiercely Interdependent
My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were nearly the last people to...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- Aug 11, 2014
- 4 min
Fiercely Interdependent
Fiercely Interdependent – My sunglasses had disappeared the night before, and this, along with some other things, meant that we were...
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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 9, 2014
- 7 min
Success, Sabbaticals, Loss, and Heading to the Alps
If success is a mountain, I’m an accidental climber. Has it ever happened to you? You’ve been working hard for goals you believe in for...
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Richard Dahlstrom
- May 8, 2014
- 2 min
Life is a Journey: Step by Step
There’s a hearing. It comes to us in dreams, or songs, or after a conversation in the corner booth of a Tuesday night with the one we...
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