Category: book
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judging church
The following paragraph from Missional Church jumped out when I read it last week, All too typical is the woman who, after attending worship and disliking the sermon, asked her visiting friend, “Now tell me, what did you get out of that worship service?” The woman was taken aback when the friend replied, “That’s not…
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the culturally savvy christian (4)
This is my final look at Dick Staub’s new book, The Culturally Savvy Christian. You can find the first three parts here: one, two, and three. In the last three chapters, Staub looks at the last section of his thesis, The culturally savvy Christin is serious about faith, savvy about faith and culture, and skilled…
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a quote from “unChristian”
I just finished the book unChristian. There are few books that I’ve so marked up, underlined, and talked back to while reading. Here’s one quote by a 28-year old from the book that really jumped out: So many Christians are caught up in the the Christian sub-culture and are completely closed off from the world.…
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the culturally savvy christian (3)
You can find part one here and part two here of this short series on Dick Staub’s new book, The Culturally Savvy Christian. As mentioned in the previous posts, Staub’s central thesis is, The culturally savvy Christin is serious about faith, savvy about faith and culture, and skilled in relating the two. The three chapters…
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the culturally savvy christian (2)
As mentioned in part 1 of this short series on Dick Staub’s The Culturally Savvy Christian, the first three chapters fall under the Savvy heading. The central theme that Dick unpacks throughout the book is, The culturally savvy Christin is serious about faith, savvy about faith and culture, and skilled in relating the two. In…
David W. Swanson 