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

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

(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

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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

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.”

 

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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!

 

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A week ago award winning cartoonist Johnny Hart died. Most of us know him from reading his popular cartoon strip–BC. B.C., with its prehistoric cavemen and dinosaurs was created in 1958, carried by over 1,300 newspapers and had an audience of 100 million. Hart won every major award in the cartoon industry: Read more

Forty years in the making, Dick’s provocative new book reveals the lessons he’s learned as a leading interpreter of faith and culture and is generating a lot of constructive dialogue among thoughtful creatives. It has also caught the attention of booksellers, with Barnes and Noble, Borders and online retailer Amazon all pre-ordering more copies than expected! Check out a description of the book, some amazing endorsements, the latest reviews and learn a bit more about the author, Dick Staub. If you’d like to book Dick as a speaker for an upcoming event contact CRS Communications. (Act quickly, 2007 is almost full and 2008 is filling up fast!) Most importantly order your own copy of the “The Culturally Savvy Christian”, read it and see if you agree with the critics, then tell your friends!

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While the new movie “Amazing Grace” is introducing many to William Wilberforce for the first time, Murray Watts of the UK wrote a one-person play celebrating Wilberforce’s life over a decade ago. Here we bring you George Scranton, actor and Theatre Professor at Seattle Pacific University with an excerpt from Murray Watt’s “The Walk.”

 

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While the new movie “Amazing Grace” is introducing many to William Wilberforce for the first time, Murray Watts of the UK wrote a one-person play celebrating Wilberforce’s life over a decade ago. Here we bring you George Scranton, actor and Theatre Professor at Seattle Pacific University with an excerpt from “The Walk.”

 

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