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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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To order Dick Staub’s Book, Too Christian, Too Pagan, for only $10 (Retail $16.95) |
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Star Wars Stuff! |
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Rousing the Desire for Creative Work |
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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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Mailbag: Is making Art really evangelism? |
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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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Books:
CSC Readers Comments
July 30, 2007
Source:
• I just finished reading a great book… The Culturally Savvy Christian by Dick Staub. When I first heard the title of the book I was turned off, thinking it was another book that told you how to follow Jesus and still be “cool”, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. I found the book to be challenging, convicting, and ultimately hopeful. I’d recommend giving it a read. Boiled Slowly Blog
• Several weeks ago I read the first chapter of CSC and was pleasantly surprised. Staub is a professor and pop culture officianado; however, his work is not just another proof-texting of popular culture for theological ideas and agendas. Instead, Staub calls us deeper into cultural analysis and critique, praising what is good, rejecting what is bad. Calling ultra-conservatives out of their cultural cocoons, uncritical evangelicals out of complacency, and aggressive fundamentalists away from combative cultural engagement, Staub charts a course for a very thoughtful, very honest, very redemptive approach to engaging culture. The Creation Project Blog
• Just a quick fan letter. Finished reading The Culturally Savvy Christian last night. Thanks SO MUCH for writing it. My next goal is to buy a stack to hand out to friends/family. Blessings and keep up the good work! M.M. A writer.
• This book is a much needed book of today. It is a critique of both modern culture and evangelical Christianity in America. There needs to be a change in our thinking. This book is a great start! Highly recommended! P.S. I am a youth pastor of 13 + years in an evangelical church. Nathan
This book is a much needed book of today. It is a critique of both modern culture and evangelical Christianity in America. There needs to be a change in our thinking. This book is a great start! Highly recommended! P.S. I am a youth pastor of 13 + years in an evangelical church.
• I'm a writer. I'm just starting Chapter 6 of TCSC. I sneaked a peak at the chapter on artist and see that I have some retooling in my future. Not that I would consider myself a writer of vapid, consumer-driven fiction. But, after reading of the four private, public and communal disciplines, I do have to figure out how my cookies-on-the-lower-shelf, genre oriented writing talent can be used in a deeper, more meaningful way. The principles are so simple, but a challenge to implement. My hope is that in doing so, some of the uncertainties about the stories I tell will work themselves out naturally. Thank you for writing the book. Thank you also for not just pointing out the flaws of the Evangelical movement, but offering useful, biblical solutions. Susan.
• I'm graduating this spring from Furman University in Greenville, SC, and I listened today to your podcast regarding your new book. I found what you had to say in that interview to be some of the most profound ideas about Christianity and culture that I've heard in quite awhile. I wanted to encourage you by letting you know that many of my friends and I believe whole-heartedly in what you had to say, particularly regarding the quality of culture that Christians are involved in, and that we are trying to live that out. Thanks for the challenging thoughts that you have presented us over the past year or so that we've been reading and listening. Keep up the good work! C Brown
• Anyone who calls themself a Christian should read this book...
went to my list of 'top 5 books every Christian should read'. Jim Berrier, Radio KSLR.
• If you are wondering why you feel dry and dusty spiritually, try reading The Culturally Savvy Christian. You may see yourself in the pages of diagnosis and you may find the cure as well. Take care--Susan
• When was the last time you read a book where you felt like you underlined most of it? For me, it was Dick Staub’s latest book, The Culturally Savvy Christian. I enjoyed Staub’s passionate appeal to Christians to be deep in their faith and relevant to society, both. He leaves no room for it to be an either or decision; it is both. SpaghettiPie
• Finished reading the book a couple of weeks ago…it is absolutely fantastic. Thank you for writing it! I am your best customer and have forwarded about 20 copies to friends and colleagues. Well done my friend. John P.
• 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 am already blown away…I have a feeling many more posts will come out of this. Check it out. Cre8vE [creative] 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. But trusting the author, Dick Staub not to be a twit, I pre-ordered the book several months ago, and 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.
• Dick – just finished the new book. Awesome! My heart leapt several times – I will be pushing this book on people big time. You’ve done a tremendous service to the Kingdom. We wanted to feature it as our April resource of the month – your good news is our bad news. . . the publisher said the entire first run is already sold out. Blessings, Walt Mueller. Center for Parent and Youth Understanding.
• I haven't finished it yet and I'm already recommending Culturally Savvy... Ate up about 50 pp. Saturday, Over halfway through now. I feel as though your book [provides] answers to so many of my inner "hunches" and heartaches. Thank You. I'm seeing the light again Barbara H
• I am a youth pastor of nearly 15 years and have seen culture shape our youth for too long. It is now a part of the evangelical church as Dick Staub points out. This book is a call for Christians to change culture. As the church grows in numbers is it growing spiritually and changing the culture around it? This and others questions are discussed in this thought provocking book. Recommended if you see a need for change in as he calls it "Christianity-lite". Up there quite possibly with A.W. Tozer, C.S. Lewis, Francis Schaeffer and others who made a call for us to shine our lite in culture through arts, music, literature, and every aspect of life. A book every Christian should read! The time is short! Nathan Chitwood
• CSC offers a timely and prophetic challenge. I found Savvy Christian very timely and insightful, personally and professionally. Staub suffers no fools or foolishness when addressing "Christianity-Lite" trivializing of the Arts and giving more credence to marketing, popular culture and political power than the Gospel's call to meaningful, costly, even slow discipleship. For those of us who "consume" (my description, not Staub's) popular film, music, television, fiction, etc., he holds us accountable for being mindless sponges - just soaking up it all up with very little discretion or mindful discernment. But he doesn't do this in a mean-spirited or prudish manner - he wants us to be alert, informed and actively engaged in appreciating goodness and truth in the Arts and recognizing delusion and untruth when they creep in.
For the artist, Staub challenges us to be fully Christian, walk boldly into the cultural marketplace, to hear the groans and joys of our fellow humans, and never be fearful of following the call to write, sing, dance, paint and act. Faith has altered our DNA: Grace has made us Aliens. But we're also God's artistic Ambassadors giving glimpses of beauty, wonder, healing and truth to people buying knock-off joy and peace.
I recommend the book for artists and readers wanting to grapple with living in / amongst our cultural influences. I'd especially recommend it to parents and church leaders who are in a position to help kids and congregations develop appreciation and discerning skills regarding the Arts, rather than cultural exit strategies that create a reactionary, fearful and cocooned Christian. And bad "Christian" Art. Scott Nolte
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