|






 |




 |
Staublogs 2010 |
 |
 |
 |
Staublogs 2009 |
 |
 |
 |
Staublogs 2008 |
 |
 |
 |
Staublogs 2007 |
 |
 |
 |
Staublogs Winter: December 2006 to March 2007 |
 |
 |
 |
Official Home of Dick Staub's The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite |
 |
 |
 |
WMBI: Culturally Savvy Christian Editorials |
 |
 |
 |
2007 Summer Lewis Trip |
 |
 |
 |
Fall 2006 Staublogs (September to November) |
 |
 |
 |
To order Dick Staub’s Book, Too Christian, Too Pagan, for only $10 (Retail $16.95) |
 |
 |
 |
SUMMER 2006 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
May 2006 Staublog |
 |
 |
 |
April 2006 Staublog |
 |
 |
 |
March 2006 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
February 2006 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
January 2006 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
December 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
November 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
October 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
September 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
August 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
July 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
June 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
May 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
Star Wars Stuff! |
 |
 |
 |
April 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
February 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
March 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
Rousing the Desire for Creative Work |
 |
 |
 |
January 2005 Staublogs |
 |
 |
 |
Admiring Susan Sontag |
 |
 |
 |
Zeitgeist meets Kairos |
 |
 |
 |
Superficiality & Christian Formation |
 |
 |
 |
Faith, Words, Complexity & Filmic Reductionism |
 |
 |
 |
Artistic Bankruptcy of Next Generation Christians. |
 |
 |
 |
Theologians Don’t Know Nothing. |
 |
 |
 |
Speech Fully Flowered as a Nut or Apple |
 |
 |
 |
Lewis, Bono & Generation Next |
 |
 |
 |
Evangelical Metaphor-phobia. |
 |
 |
 |
Darth Vader, Wilco & You |
 |
 |
 |
Longing. |
 |
 |
 |
Nigelisms |
 |
 |
 |
Lewis, Tolkien, Monty Python & Nigel. |
 |
 |
 |
Third Way; Deeper in Faith, Deeper in Culture. |
 |
 |
 |
Life: The Movie. Unhappy Endings? |
 |
 |
 |
The “authentic” C.S. Lewis |
 |
 |
 |
Outsiders. Jesus. Modigliani. Potok. |
 |
 |
 |
Make Disciples Who Make Good Art. |
 |
 |
 |
This Artist Plays Real Good For Free. |
 |
 |
 |
The Seduction of Celebrity |
 |
 |
 |
American Christianity: Incredible Lightness of Being. |
 |
 |
 |
Some Disassembly Required |
 |
 |
 |
We Don’t Make Records Anymore |
 |
 |
 |
The Path You Take? |
 |
 |
 |
Christocentric |
 |
 |
 |
Craftmanship as Counter-Cultural |
 |
 |
 |
Ecclesiological Crisis |
 |
 |
 |
Mailbag: Is making Art really evangelism? |
 |
 |
 |
Middlebrow. |
 |
 |
 |
Theology of Academy Award Best Picture Nominees: (The Curious Case of Benjamin STAUBLOG: Theology of Academy Award Best Picture Nominees: (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Frost/Nixon. Milk. The Reader. Slumdog Millionaire) |
 |
 |
|
 |
| |
STAUBLOG:
And the first shall be last …

Click here to listen to our latest daily podcast of "The Kindlings Muse”. “The Kindlings Muse” rekindling our spiritual, intellectual and creative potential.”
And the first shall be last …
Ever since I moved to an island in the middle of Puget Sound two years ago and no longer travel frequently, the friendly skies have grown less friendly. Alas, I slid from Premier Executive status to Premier. Yesterday, I learned I am no longer even Premier.
How low can you go, I wondered? I was about to find out.
I arrived at the airport in Seattle for a flight to Washington, D.C., and took my place in a long line of fellow travelers. Just next to
me, the Premier check-in line was empty, reminding me that the airline no longer thinks I am special.
After paying $25 to check in a bag (there's no baggage charge for Premiers), I was t...
read more
|
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing, and endings are a disaster.

Sam Shepard, February, 8, 2020, New Yorker ~ p 72 March 7th, 2010
|
|
| |
Christianity has to be disappointing, precisely because it is not a mechanism for accomplishing all our human ambitions and aspirations; it is a mechanism for subjecting all things to the will of God.

Simon Tugwell Celtic Daily Prayer March 5th, 2010
|
|
| |
But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy.

Jean Vanier Celtic Daily Prayer March 5th, 2010
|
|
| |
Why does (God) make us feel the questions if he's not going to give
us the answers?

Larry Gopnik,(portrayed by Michael Stuhlbarg) in the Coen brothers' 2009 film, "A Serious Man." February 9th, 2010
|
|
| |
Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady.

Bono ,U2's song, Stand Up Comedy February 9th, 2010
|
|
| |
The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable

Oscar Arias November 21st, 2009
|
|
| |
Be sure your face is towards the light; Study the fish's curious ways;Then keep yourself well out of sight; And cherish Patience all your days. p167
(Let no man think that he can become a successful angler by learning all about lines and hooks and rods and reels! He must study FISH). p168

F.W. Boreham, on what Jesus implied regarding being "fishers of men," The Uttermost Star: Heather and Bluebells March 5th, 2010
|
|
 |
|











|