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

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Sundance Epiphanies
PARK CITY, Utah (RNS)
The Sundance Film Festival facilitates epiphanies.
I know because I've been here only one day and I can already feel, in the words of Carole King, the earth move under my feet and the sky
tumbling down, all because of four simple little student films.
An epiphany is a sort of hit-you-over-the-head moment, a "sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning
of something," is how the dictionary puts it. Usually it's "initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience." In each of these low-budget films, the central character faces a life-changing situation that triggers an epiphany.
"On the Road to Tel-Aviv," by Israeli Khen Shalem, tells the true story of passengers boarding a bus to Tel-Aviv who balk at sharing the
ride with a Palestinian woman they believe may be a terrorist. If you were an Israeli Jew, would you board a bus with an Arab woman carrying a gym bag?
"Kavi," by Gregg Helvey, tells the story of an Indian boy forced to work as a modern-day slave in a brick kiln. He must choose to either
accept what he's always been told, or fight for a dif...
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Mr. Cameron, who directed the megamelodrama “Titanic” and, more notably, several of the most influential science-fiction films of the past few decades (“The Terminator,” “Aliens” and “The Abyss”), is a filmmaker whose ambitions transcend a single movie or mere stories to embrace cinema as an art, as a social experience and a shamanistic ritual, one still capable of producing the big WOW.

MANOHLA DARGIS NYT Review of Avatar December 18th, 2009
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Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can,In all the places you can,At all the times you can!

John Wesley December 17th, 2009
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An adolescent asked Mozart how to compose symphonies. Mozart said that because the lad was so young, perhaps he should begin composing ballads. "But," the young man objected, "you wrote symphonies when you were only 10 years old." Mozart replied: "But I didn't have to ask how.

George Will, George Will, Newsweek December 11th, 2009
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Monsters are not so to God, who sees in the immensity of his work the
infinity of forms that he has comprised in it.

Michel de Montaigne, from his essays published in 1580, Of a Monstrous Child December 5th, 2009
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The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward; that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody,Franklin Roosevelt's old Groton headmaster, Newsweek-Meacham-12/14/09 December 11th, 2009
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The word longing comes from the same root as the word long in the sense of length in either time or space and also the word belong, so that in its full richness to long suggests to yearn for a long time for something that is a long way off and something that we feel we belong to and that belongs to us

Frederick Buechner (pp. 18-19) The Longing for Home, writes, October 15th, 2009
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We are very near greatness; one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

Ralph Waldo Emerson November 21st, 2009
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The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable

Oscar Arias November 21st, 2009
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Blessed are the happiness-makers

Henry Ward Beecher November 21st, 2009
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Some pursue happiness, others create it.

November 21st, 2009
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All good things are wild and free.

Henry David Thoreau November 21st, 2009
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Stretch out your hand and take the world's wide gift of joy and beauty.

Corrine Roosevelt Robinson November 21st, 2009
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Hughes November 21st, 2009
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