Dahm

Nancy Hassett Dahm is a registered nurse who specializes in cancer care.

Nancy Dahm biography 2001

“These days I see people going back to strict communication with God to solve their problems,” Dahm says, but he has come to feel that this is not enough to bring meaningful and lasting change to the severely problematic families and relationships he encounters daily at St. Pius.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Dahm makes a few phone calls on behalf of Silvia, a parishioner whose husband is being held in a suburban jail after having been arrested for allegedly possessing a shotgun.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

The cowed young man gratefully promises to leave his contact information, as Dahm tries to head out the door and to his office on the third floor.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

As to whether he does much spiritual counseling, Dahm says that he is “not trained” as a counselor, and so functions as a first contact for needy parishioners because of his visibility as a priest, but he merely tries to identify areas of need and then refer parishioners to his staff of clinicians.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Dahm has been at the parish so long that his personality and charismatic leadership have come to define it.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Back in the Kalahari sea of sand, Toma Dahm and I are holding one another during an inspired dance.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

Charles Dahm, wearing white ceremonial vestments and a brightly colored Mexican stole as he holds up a Latina child in the act of ceremonial presentation.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

With this explanation, Toma Dahm, one of the great Bushman n|om-kxaosi, wants the rest of the world to appreciate the truth about his spiritual universe, and to notice that it provides a very different way of knowing and being than that which most of us inherited from our own culture.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

Dahm neither the list nor the numbers it reflects are very valuable, simply because there is so much turnover in the neighborhood.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010