
Host Dick Staub and Rev Earl Palmer appear live at the historic NATIONAL Presbyterian Church in Washington DC, where they discuss President George Washington: The Man, His Life Journey, His Greatness as An American Leader as seen through the lens of three books:1) David McCullough's 1776; 2) Joseph Ellis' His Excellency3) George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company & conversation.
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Posted in A. Podcasts -- "The Kindlings Muse", Books, Celebrity, Earl Palmer Ministries, Justice Issues, Seekers On Journey, Spirituality in March 22, 2010 by Dick Staub | No Comments »

Dick Staub welcomes you to the annual Theology of Academy Award Nominees show in which we ask three questions of the best picture nominees: 1) Where is God or Who is God in this film? 2) What is the human condition/dilemma addressed in this film? 3) What is redemption in this film and how is it found? On our panel is Jeffrey Overstreet, film critic and author; Jennie Spohr, producer of The Kindlings Muse and Gregory Wright, managing editor of Hollywood Jesus.com & Past the Popcorn and publisher of W. John MacGregor's West of the Gospel, due to be released this summer. The ten nominees are: Avatar: An Education; Up in the Air; Inglourious Basterds; A Serious Man; Hurt Locker; Up; District 9; Precious and The Blind Side.
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Posted in A. Podcasts -- "The Kindlings Muse", Books, Live @ Hales, Movies, Seekers On Journey, Spirituality in February 25, 2010 by Dick Staub | 5 Comments »

In her book Fingerprints of God NPR religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Haggerty set out in search for a science of spirituality. Interviewing leading neurologists, physicists, psychologists and a burgeoning breed of scientists intent on researching the physical imprint of the spiritual, her book offers a travelogue through the world of research into the reality of the unseen. In this podcast host Dick Staub discusses her findings with Adrian Wyard, founder of counterbalance.org, Reverend Jennie Spohr and Cindy Fitch, professor of biology at Seattle Pacific University.
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Posted in A. Podcasts -- "The Kindlings Muse", Books, Live @ Hales, News, Science, Seekers On Journey, Spirituality in November 29, 2009 by Dick Staub | 1 Comment »

Welcome to The Kindlings Muse @ Earl Palmer Ministries. This event is taped for podcast in front of a live audience at the Burke Museum Caf on the campus of the university of Washington. Each month we feature the Reverend Earl Palmer selecting and then discussing a book thinking Christians ought to read. In this show host Dick Staub and Earl Palmer discuss Three Ways to Understand the World as explored in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. With the publication of this book, in 1962, during the brief Kruschev thaw, Solzhenitsyn became an international sensation. The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner.
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Posted in A. Podcasts -- "The Kindlings Muse", Books, Earl Palmer Ministries, Justice Issues, Seekers On Journey, Spirituality, Writing in November 11, 2009 by Dick Staub | No Comments »

Welcome to The Kindlings Muse @ Earl Palmer Ministries. This event is taped for podcast in front of a live audience at the Burke Museum Cafe on the campus of the university of Washington. Each month we feature the Reverend Earl Palmer selecting and then discussing a book thinking Christians ought to read. In this show host Dick Staub and Earl Palmer discuss The Defiant Traditionalist Who Believed in God: Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton
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Posted in A. Podcasts -- "The Kindlings Muse", Books, Earl Palmer Ministries, Seekers On Journey, Spirituality, Writing in October 14, 2009 by Dick Staub | 2 Comments »

Description: Host Bill Hogg & panelists Dr. Allyson Jule author and Co-Director of gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University; culture watcher, movie critic and Charlton Heston fan boy Peter Chattaway ; award-winning screenwriter Kevin Miller who has appeared as Lex Luthor on Smallville engage in a lively exchange about the New Atheism as espoused by its acerbic proponents Dawkins ,Hitchens and Maher.
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Posted in A. Podcasts -- "The Kindlings Muse", Books, Science, Seekers On Journey, Spirituality, Western Canada With Bill Hogg in October 7, 2009 by Dick Staub | 4 Comments »
KindlingsFest 2009 explored theme of Broken Beauty with Dr. Jerry Root, Nigel Goodwin and artists-in-residence Bruce Herman, Michael Ward, Rick Stevenson and Michael Kelly Blanchard.
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KindlingsFest 2009 explored theme of Broken Beauty with Dr. Jerry Root, Nigel Goodwin and artists-in-residence Bruce Herman, Michael Ward, Rick Stevenson and Michael Kelly Blanchard.
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Posted in Books, KindlingsFest, Seekers On Journey, Spirituality, Writing in August 27, 2009 by Mark | No Comments »

Host Dick Staub facilitates a discussion of film with author and film critic Jeffrey Overstreet , producer and film critic Jennie Spohr and Greg Wright Managing Editor of Hollywood Jesus and Past The Popcorn. Films discussed on this podcast include: Angels and Demons; Departures; Star Trek; Audience of One; Times and Winds; Wise Blood; The Wrestler; A Walk to Beautiful; Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray; Moon.
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Posted in @ The Movies, A. Podcasts -- "The Kindlings Muse", Books, Celebrity, Live @ Hales, Movies, Seekers On Journey, Spirituality, Writing in May 22, 2009 by Dick Staub | No Comments »

Welcome to The Kindlings Muse @ Earl Palmer Ministries. This event is taped for podcast in front of a live audience at the Burke Museum Cafe on the campus of the university of Washington. Each month we feature the Reverend Earl Palmer selecting and then discussing a book thinking Christians ought to read. In this show host Dick Staub and Earl Palmer discuss Unmistakably Real: The Touchstone of Reality in Two Whimsical Books of C. S. Lewis. Books to read: The Silver Chair and The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis.
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Posted in @ The CS Lewis Centre, A. Podcasts -- "The Kindlings Muse", Books, Earl Palmer Ministries, Seekers On Journey, Spirituality, Writing in April 22, 2009 by Dick Staub | No Comments »