New Book: The Culturally Savvy Christian
Dick Staub's new book The Culturally Savvy Christian is receiving great reviews from readers, as well as critics.
Updated May 21, 2010
Dick Staub's new book The Culturally Savvy Christian is receiving great reviews from readers, as well as critics.
• Dick discusses some of the ideas from The Culturally Savvy Christian on YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dick+staub&search=Search)
• A few readers have reported buying 10 or 20 copies and sending them to friends as a "must read" gift. It is easy to do at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0787978930/ref=cm_arms_pdp_dp/102-9457521-0336953). If you are a prime member there is no charge for shipping!
• A bunch of pastors are organizing adult study groups around the book; Steve Rabey used it in his "Faith and Culture" class at Fuller Seminary extension.
• Dick was invited to speak to a publisher's gathering about the importance of cover design's synergy with content. (Poet Luci Shaw was quoted as saying, "Yikes! What a Cover!")
Enjoy some reader comments below—then read the book and keep recommending it to your friends!
• I just finished reading THE CSC. The writing was excellent: thought-provoking, intelligent and accessible. My hi-lighter nearly went dry.
• I just picked up a copy of Dick Staub's The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite. Heavy title with equally heavy content. I'm only through the first two chapters and already am blown away…I have a feeling many more posts will come out of this. Check it out.
—Cre8vE Chaos
• The title might have scared me off. The Culturally Savvy Christian sounds unnervingly like that book I've long feared some well-meaning twit would write one day: How to Be Hip Though Christian. Trusting the author, Dick Staub, not to be a twit, I pre-ordered the book several months ago; it arrived yesterday. I'm not disappointed. In fact, I'm one-third of the way through, and already I find in this book empathy and clarification for issues that have troubled me a long time.
—K Popa
• Your book is critical for sake of the Kingdom. It is far more important than you or your success. Lean hard, press on.
—John S
• The new book, what can I say? I laughed. I cried. I felt one with the cosmos. I craved macaroni and cheese for three weeks. I did the "Hokey Pokey" and turned myself around until I couldn't stand up. And I ordered more copies to give to others who are (or want to be) culturally sensitive Christians. Thanks so much!
—Dave S.
"The KindlingsMuse" (http://www.thekindlings.com) host Dick Staub, author of The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite (April 2007): An intelligent, imaginative, hospitable exploration of ideas that matter in contemporary life originating from Hale's Ales Pub and Brewery.
Kindling: material to light a fire; to produce warmth and an illuminating glow.
Muse: to spark creative thought; engage in meditation; consider thoughtfully.
Originally published May 21, 2010.
