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	<title>Fibonacci Faith: Changing Everything</title>
	
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		<title>Ordinary Time – the Days that Matter the Most</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dahlstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who follow the &#8220;Christian Year&#8221; know that the Bible readings from December through Pentecost are designed to cover the story of God&#8217;s restorative plan for the cosmos revealed in the person and work of Jesus Christ.  Today begins the long stretch in that same calendar called &#8220;Ordinary Time&#8221;. Ordinary is a word we don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The value of trials – lessons from just below St. Helen’s summmit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dahlstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuff happens.  Job loss.  Marriage challenges.  Parenting that wearies you to the bone.  Accidents.  Health.  Money.  Wendell Berry says, &#8220;By expenditure of hope, Intelligence and work, You think you have it fixed; It is unfixed by rule&#8221; Life happens and it&#8217;s the unexpected turns that reveal what we&#8217;re made of.  This is a priceless gift, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters to the Three Moms in my life:  I can’t thank you enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 16:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dahlstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of mother&#8217;s day, I wanted to write some notes to each of the three moms in my life.  Of course, none of them were or are, perfect.  But I&#8217;m fortunate, in that each of them are easy to honor.   My mother-in-law is equally wonderful, but this blog&#8217;s already too long to add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Caring for the Earth matters to Christ…and you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dahlstrom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/richarddahlstrom/?p=2693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8221; And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense of the mutuality of influence, rising out of the essential unity among soul and body and community and world?  These are all the works of God and it is therefore the work of virtue to make or restore harmony among them&#8221;   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Testament God:  Angry fundamentalist, or loving friend?  And why it matters!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dahlstrom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/richarddahlstrom/?p=2688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my Bible reading this morning, I came across the phrase &#8220;put away the foreign gods&#8221; and realized that it comes up over and over again the Old Testament.  Instead of creating and arrogant and judgmental provincialism, pondering what it means for us today could lead to a whole new way of living: Thoughtful people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two qualities we all need in order to become better leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dahlstrom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/richarddahlstrom/?p=2678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Look at any cultural institution:  family, church, education, government &#8211; and you&#8217;ll quickly find evidence of a leadership crisis.  Broken marriages, absent parents, hypocrisy and power abuse, and the obvious lack of moral fiber to make hard decisions are evidence that the crisis is an epidemic.  The fruits of these failures is a polarized culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Version of Myself… What’s the recipe?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/richarddahlstrom/2013/04/24/the-best-version-of-myself-whats-the-recipe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dahlstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With vacation, a planned hike to the summit of St. Helen&#8217;s, and a climbing project brewing that I&#8217;m excited about sharing later, I recently reread a book called &#8220;Bone Games: Extreme Sports, Shaminism, Zen, and the Search for Transcendence&#8221;.  Rob opens with the story of his most desperate moment.  He&#8217;s fallen, is seriously injured and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the Most Important thing in Life?   Ask the Tree</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/richarddahlstrom/2013/04/19/whats-the-most-important-thing-in-life-ask-the-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dahlstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something&#8217;s going on in my backyard which has been immensely helpful in reminding me of what the highest priority should be in both my personal and professional life.  When we moved to Seattle 17+ years ago, we brought a California redwood tree with us that was, at the time, about 7 feet tall.  We planted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marathon Bombs and Baseball’s Best – Lessons on life vs. death from April 15th</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/richarddahlstrom/2013/04/16/marathon-bombs-and-baseballs-best-lessons-on-life-death-from-april-15th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dahlstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, as often happens, sport became the backdrop for something larger.  It also happened to be something horrific as Boston blew.  But sport and life were celebrated yesterday too, because April 15th is Jackie Robinson day in Major League Baseball every year.  We do well to ponder, celebrate, and learn, especially this year, when fear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TMI – How Bible Reading can be Bad for your Spiritual Health</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/richarddahlstrom/2013/04/02/tmi-how-bible-reading-can-be-bad-for-your-spiritual-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Dahlstrom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/richarddahlstrom/?p=2630</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most important truths in the Bible are found in obscure passages that never made the highlight reel of miracles, crosses, virgin births, and empty tombs.  Tucked away, for example, between Jesus healing of a sick man by a fountain, and his feeding multiple thousands with a few loaves of bread, I found [...]]]></description>
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