2007 Spirit of Windrider Award Winner – Author and Broadcaster, Dick Staub

Dick Staub is one of today’s most experienced and thoughtful observers of belief in contemporary culture. He is an engaging, broadly informed listener who consumes a vast amount of information each day and then communicates his observations and insights as a broadcaster, writer and public speaker. He enjoys learning about people’s ideas and the personal journey that shaped their views.

While he is a man of far reaching interests and curiosities, Staub is particularly fascinated with America’s spiritual quest, which today is often unlinked from organized religion. He believes there is a vibrant ongoing conversation about “ideas that matter” and belief going on in today’s popular culture through movies, books, theatre and music. Part of his mission is to listen to and facilitate that cultural conversation.

After years of hosting live daily drive time radio, in 2006 Dick launched “The Kindlings Muse, a podcast (heard at www.thekindlings.com) of “intelligent, imaginative, hospitable explorations of ideas that matter in contemporary life,” and originating from Hales Ales Brewery and Pub, the CS Lewis Centre (University of Washington Burke Museum Cafe), Sundance Film Festival, IAM in NYC and more.