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St. Aub: Holiday Year-End Update. This has been another great year at the Center for Faith and Culture! St.Aub Season Two has explored the centrality and importance of the local church, a timely subject in these times of dropping church attendance. Thanks to your support we’ve released over 100 archived Dick Staub Interviews, plus almost all the Kindlings Muse at Earl Palmer shows. Coming in 2026 among other things we’ll release KindlingsFest content including all your favorites: Malcolm Guite, Luci Shaw, Jerry Root, Scott Cairns, Bob Bennett, Jeff Johnson & more.
This December I am again asking for your financial support and this year it seems more important than ever. Here’s why. By almost every measure our St.Aub shows are a success, but our one area of concern is that in this age of social media and short attention spans, St.Aub’s episode length is too demanding for many in the younger generation. We need to add a shorter complementary entry point to St.Aub’s longer format. Because we set out to reach younger people (while retaining our current audience), and because that generation is leaving the church and faith in unparalleled numbers ~ we must find a better way to pass on to them what our generation learned on our Godward Journey.
WE’VE IDENTIFIED TWO WAYS TO REACH YOUNGER VIEWERS 1)Create shorter content distributed more frequently. In a 2025 addition to The Cambridge Dictionary: “snackable” refers to content that you can read or play in small amounts or for a short time. It reflects our ever-shrinking attention span. As TIME magazine predicted at the turn of the century. “The communicator has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging the culture?” Shorter content is one way to engage the younger generation. 2)Distribute the content at locations frequented by younger people We’ve relied on Facebook and Vimeo as our outlets for St.Aub, while younger people hang out at Instagram and You Tube. We need to add these and other outlets. With your help we will. Here’s the problem. Matters of the soul are serious and weighty Most social media aimed at the younger generation is neither. Can we create content that is short but deep? Italian Philosopher Italian Umberto Evo offers a clue. "I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom." Eco’s phrase is the key to the content we want to create in 2026.
ANNOUNCING A NEW APPROACH IN 2026 Title: St.Aub: Little Scraps of Wisdom Description: Regular, short, deep useful observations about nurturing a spiritual life Target audience: Seekers and Godward souls of all ages with a special focus on young adults and their peers. Distribution: YouTube, Instagram and others.
THIS NEW APPROACH CAN ONLY BECOME A REALITY WITH YOUR GENEROUS DONATIONS. Last year we raised just under $20,000 in December (*The only month we ask for donations) This year we need closer to $30,000 in donations Because we need to add a young, media-savvy, part time assistant To help execute this plan. I’m getting reports that this is a disastrous year for non-profit fundraising! We leave our request in God’s hands and yours. Please prayerfully consider a generous donation to help us create, distribute and launch St.Aub: “Little Scraps of Wisdom.” May God bless and guide you in your giving decisions this December. Dick Staub a.k.a. St.Aub!
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NEWS from DICK STAUB. 'Tis the busiest season of the year. So I’ll keep this short! FIRST. I wish you the merriest of Christmases. Even in the darkest of streets, shines the everlasting word and eternal light! SECOND. My cancer is officially in remission! Thanks for your concern and prayers. We've finished Season One of St.Aub, and in January 2025 we'll begin releasing episodes of Season 2 (The Godward Soul in Community)! THIRD. We’ve now released over 100 Dick Staub Archived Interviews, plus all of The Kindlings Muse shows at Earl Palmer. Everybody should find something of interest! More content is on the way. Enjoy! FINALLY. We do not charge for any of our content. Everyone subscribes for FREE and gets full access. But every December we remind you that we DO need financial support and we DO accept donations to cover the costs of operations. We were deeply moved by your generosity last year. Thank you so very much. BUT. This year we need to raise about $25,000 to cover other costs. We are grateful for professionals who donate their services, (Daniel-web services, Josh-filming, Marty-audio, and me!) We only mention our need for donations during December, so if our content is useful to you, please make-a-donation small or large, to help defray these costs. May God guide you as you consider donating. CLICK HERE TO DONATE ONLINE Or mail Checks to: Center for Faith and Culture PO Box 729 Eastsound, WA 98245
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NEWS from DICK STAUB. I’m sorry to say we will be taking a hiatus from releasing weekly St.Aub content beginning the end of August.
In March 2023, I was diagnosed with aggressive, high-risk prostate cancer. I immediately began monthly hormone injections which will continue into the fall. This summer I spent six weeks with the fabulous team at Seattle’s Fred Hutchison Cancer Care Center for daily radiation treatments.
The prospects for recovery are great, but fatigue, weariness and other side effects make it impossible at this time to finish writing and filming the new episodes for Season 1 of St.Aub, which were to be released from September to December. If you haven’t already, subscribe free at the dickstaub.com home page to learn about new releases from St.Aub, The Dick Staub Show Interviews and The Kindlings Muse.
But NOW for some good news! During this hiatus, this week we are releasing over 75 interviews from The Dick Staub Show Archives, with more to come!
For the first time you’ll have access to these interviews with the shapers of American culture — award-winning novelists, trend-watchers, business leaders, educators, politicians, theologians, filmmakers, musicians, philosophers, activists, and more.
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