Writing • dwight j. friesen

FURTHERING THE

GREAT CONVERSATION

No one learns alone.

Throughout his life, Dwight has been shaped by a remarkable community of guides. Some have walked beside him in friendship and conversation. Others have been encountered through books, lectures, works of art, or lives lived in another time and place. Some clarified the path before him; others revealed paths he hoped never to follow. Almost all of them expanded his imagination and transformed the conversation he was having with himself, the world, and the Divine.

The books and writings gathered throughout this website are offered in that same spirit. They are not presented as a canon of “must-read” texts, but as companions in an ongoing conversation spanning generations, cultures, disciplines, and traditions.

To read is to enter that conversation. To write is to contribute to it. To teach is to invite others to discover their own voice within it. And to listen well may be one of the holiest ways we participate in the shared work of seeking what is true, beautiful, and life-giving.

“Writing empowers me talk with ancestors, engage contemporaries,

interrogate my own heart, prayerfully open to up to what is alive within,

and – if I’m lucky – further the great conversation just a little.

It is never my goal to prescribe what another ‘ought’ do or think,

but to aid in one’s quest for greater resonance with the real.”

Dr. Dwight J. Friesen

Below are a few of the books Dwight has written or contributed to, as well as a list of some of the writings by others they penned endorsements for over the years, followed by a link to all his blog posts dating back to October of 2000. Or you can click here for his “Author’s Page” on Amazon.