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2011-05-13T07:49:54-07:00

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Quiet…an endangered species

Last updated on: May 13, 2011 at 7:49 am By Richard Dahlstrom

I don’t eat margarine anymore because somewhere along the way chemists (who invented the stuff in the first place) discovered that the hydrogenated oils in it are horrible for your body. I try to ride my bike to work more than my car because we’ve also learned that the big behemoth of a convenience that we call an automobile contributes to a form of atrophy. First the car, then the elevator–who needs legs? Turns out my pump called a heart... Read more

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2011-05-10T17:25:41-07:00

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Why now? Why hope? Why colors? Why art?

Last updated on: May 10, 2011 at 5:25 pm By Richard Dahlstrom

I just returned from an inspiring afternoon with a few hundred people, interacting around the topics of the gospel and social justice, and I wanted to take a moment and share why I’m so passionate about this topic, and hence the book I’ve just written. My hope and prayer is that this new book finds its way into many hands because I believe that millions are floundering in their faith, or on the sidelines, or simply having the wrong conversations... Read more

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2011-05-10T17:25:41-07:00

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Why now? Why hope? Why colors? Why art?

Last updated on: May 10, 2011 at 5:25 pm By Richard Dahlstrom

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2011-05-07T14:21:55-07:00

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Weekend links: Bin Laden de-brief and book news

Last updated on: May 7, 2011 at 2:21 pm By Richard Dahlstrom

Bin Laden and discernment: I don’t know if you heard anything about this, but Bin Laden was killed this past week. Yep… some Navy SEALs snuck into the Pakistan and shot him dead. The rest of the week offered a flood of news stories, though the word “new” isn’t accurate, because the flood that rushed in wasn’t “news;” it was opinion. One blogger writes: Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I... Read more

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2011-05-07T14:21:55-07:00

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Weekend links: Bin Laden de-brief and book news

Last updated on: May 7, 2011 at 2:21 pm By Richard Dahlstrom

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2011-05-06T10:37:36-07:00

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Slow down, breathe deep, pay attention

Last updated on: May 6, 2011 at 10:37 am By Richard Dahlstrom

Spring is the season for micro-vistas. In the winter I re-create by getting outside, in the snow, and on the best days I’m swishing down a hill paying nothing other than split second attention to the ground beneath my feet. Then, on the way back up I’ll look out…out…out: to the ridge across the canyon with it’s overhanging cornices of snow, or the summit of Mt. Baker, or Mt. Rainier. The beauty is absorbed through the macro experience. Seeing the... Read more

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2011-05-02T11:08:09-07:00

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Hope has primary colors…

Last updated on: May 2, 2011 at 11:08 am By Richard Dahlstrom

…and those colors aren’t personal peace and prosperity (“give me my stuff and leave me alone”), individualism, and “heaven when I die.” Or perhaps I should say, those aren’t God’s primary colors. I love how God has taken all the complexity of religion, and boiled it down to the essence, down to three imperatives, three colors: Do justice – like my friends at International Justice Mission who are working to end human slavery, or my friend Walter who’s saving women... Read more

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2011-04-30T12:08:34-07:00

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In secret: the value of humility and anonymity

Last updated on: April 30, 2011 at 12:08 pm By Richard Dahlstrom

Many of you have these words of Jesus: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Could it be that these words, like so many others of Jesus’ are truer, much truer, than we realize? 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 rabbit hole that is physics, the closer one gets to the mysteries of revelation called theology. For example: After Einstein... Read more

2011-04-26T12:28:39-07:00

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And if the world ends on May 21?

Last updated on: April 26, 2011 at 12:28 pm By Richard Dahlstrom

“There is no doubt that the Antichrist has already been born. Firmly established already in his early years, he will, after reaching maturity, achieve supreme power.” -Martin of Tours, 4th Century AD I’ve always had friends who are “into” Biblical prophecy and finding the dates of Christ’s return. In the ’70s, I saw charts and graphs predicting the end of the world would happen in the ’70s. The same thing happened in the ’80s and ’90s. And who among us... Read more

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2011-04-19T09:44:56-07:00

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Insanity antidote: simplicity

Last updated on: April 19, 2011 at 9:44 am By Richard Dahlstrom

If you’re reading these words, you’re likely among the top 10% of wealthiest people in the world. You’re probably not spending much time thinking about how you’ll get water to drink, or whether you’ll have a place of shelter tonight. Though it may come at steep price (depending on where you live) you have access to health care; and food; and more than one pair of shoes. We are, in other words, blessed. This kind of wealth creates choices, and... Read more

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