2007

Dick Staub | Broadcaster, Writer, Commentator

Dick Staub is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and commentator whose work focuses on understanding faith and culture, then interpreting each to the other. Beginning in the 1960’s, he pioneered the chronicling of the vibrant conversation about “ideas that matter” and belief going on in popular culture through movies, books, theatre and music. As host of a Chicago-based, nationally syndicated radio talk-show, he interviewed the shapers of American culture — authors, futurists, theologians, filmmakers, musicians, philosophers, business leaders, educators, politicians, trend-watchers and others, becoming one of the most experienced and thoughtful observers of belief in contemporary culture. Staub has written a bi-weekly nationally syndicated newspaper column, authored numerous articles and the books “About You Fully Human. Fully Alive” (Jossey-Bass 2010), “The Culturally Savvy Christian – A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite” (Jossey-Bass 2007), “Christian Wisdom of the Jedi Masters” (Jossey-Bass 2005) and “Too Christian, Too Pagan” (Zondervan 2000), the thesis of which is that if you truly follow Jesus you will seem “too pagan for your Christian friends and too Christian for your pagan friends.” Staub graduated cum laude from Simpson University, magna cum laude from Gordon-Conwell Seminary and has done additional graduate-level coursework at Harvard Divinity School and University of Washington. His academic concentrations include Philosophy, Communications, Religion and Cultural History. He is now happily retired and living on Orcas Island in Washington State.