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Dick Staub’s book, “About You: Fully Human, Fully Alive!”
Hi there! As of today, my newest book, About You, Fully Human: Fully Alive, is now available online and at bookstores everywhere. If I may be so bold as to ask this favor? If you have enjoyed my writing, speaking, broadcasting, podcasting or whatever other contact we’ve had, I hope you run right out and buy a copy or order online for your kindle! Please read it and then post online comments at Amazon, make mentions on your Facebook or blogs, or suggest this book for your book groups ~
Dr. Os Guinness: Survival of the Fastest ~ living sanely when life is fired point blank. Podcast: Live at The Kindlings WinterFest 2009 Segment 1 of 1
The Second of four lectures by Os Guinness on Orcas Island, January 2009. I. Friday 7 PM: The Journey – A thinking person’s quest for meaning. II. Saturday 10 AM: Survival of the Fastest ~ living sanely when life is fired point blank.
III. Saturday 7 PM A World Safe for Diversity ~ living with our deepest differences in a world of exploding pluralism. IV. Sunday 10 AM: You Only Live Once ~ calling, the ultimate game plan for life.
The Shack AttackPodcast: Live At Hales Segment 1 of 1
The Shack is a book people either love or hate ~ theologically, literarily, therapeutically ~ few find middle ground. Tonight we want to hear the views of our live audience and commentary from of our panel of Kindlings, the irrepressible Bill Hogg, singer/songwriter/therapist Robert Deeble and broadcaster, pastor/theologian & all around gadfly Randy Rowland.
Sir Ken Robinson. “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”Guest Blogger Dick Staub
My friend Marty sent me an email that said. “Watch This.” Good friends don’t waste good friends time in seasons where there is none to be wasted, so I knew he meant business…the business of rekindling creativity among thoughtful creatives for whom God is of central importance. I now pass it on to you. “Watch it! Taped at the renowned TEDS event, Sir Ken Robinson asks: “Do schools kill creativity?” The questions he raises and implications of his answers are simple and profound. Best of all–he tells a story of a little girl drawing God that I’ve been Read more
Art Helping People See GodBlogger Dick Staub
A kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they drew. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s artwork. As she came to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, “I’m drawing God.” The teacher paused and said, “But no one knows what God looks like.” Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, “They will in a minute.”
Recently I was asked to deliver a devotional to the board of IMAGE Journal, a glorious periodical that grapples with the Read more
No commentsHumans on A Rainy Orcas Sunday Afternoon Blogger Dick Staub
What do humans do on a rainy Sunday afternoon? Staring across the marsh, its surface battered and pummeled by rain, looking over the berm towards the choppy waters of the Strait of Georgia where it feeds into Rosario Strait off the northern tip of Orcas Island, it occurs to me that I have no reason not to Read more
Moving to a Small Island Blogger Dick Staub
(This column first appeared as an RNS syndicated column in September 2007). I have moved to a small island, in part to pursue the un-frantic life. For twenty years we’ve vacationed in the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. Each year for a few weeks
Glimmers Of Artistic HopeBlogger Dick Staub
Glimmers Of Artistic Hope““ I see faint glimmers of hope on the artistic front.“
1) Classical Music Listen to what Aaron Jay Kernis, composer of “Newly Drawn Sky, said to Seattle Symphony conductor Gerard Strauss about his aspirations. “I want to write music that is visceral, that is moving, and that is impeccably put together. I don’t want classical music to be a passive experience. I want it to have as much of an Read more
Dr. Jerry Root on C S Lewis and “Encountering Reality.” Podcast: Live At CS Lewis Centre Segment 1 of 3
On this show we explore CS Lewis’ view of encountering reality as based on his quote from “An Experiment in Criticism” where Lewis says, ” In coming to understand anything we must reject the facts as they are for us in favor of the facts as they are.” Lewis scholar Dr. Jerry Root says this amounts to “adjusting the scoliosis of our souls to the plumb line of reality.”
Dick Staub. The Culturally Savvy Christian Podcast: Live At Hales Segment 2 of 3
On this podcast Dick Staub turns the reins of The Kindlings Muse over to his trusted friend Bill Hogg a man with that rare blend of wisdom and wit delivered in the tongue of one who speaks in the accent he swears we will hear in heaven. They are talking about Dick Staub’s newest book The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite, described by scholar/pastor NT Wright as “an urgent book for our times.” One recent reader encouraged the author with these words, “The new book, what can I say? I laughed. I cried. I felt one with the cosmos. I craved macaroni and cheese for three weeks. I did the Hokey Pokey and turned myself around until I couldn’t stand up! Enjoy!
