Grand Illusions
Too many suburban Christians are in the world—and also of it.
Caleb Stegall reviews David Goetz's Death by Suburb | posted 7/01/2006 12:00AM

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Caleb Stegall, an attorney and editor of The New Pantagruel website, lives with his family in rural Kansas.
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Death by Suburb is available from Christianbook.com and other book retailers.
Also posted today is an interview with author Dave Goetz.
More about Goetz is available from his website. He is president of CZ Marketing. His article, "Suburban Spirituality" is available on our site.
Lauren F. Winner reviewed Goetz's book for Books & Culture, along with Al Hsu's The Suburban Christian. Hsu has a blog with the same name.
Managing editor Mark Galli introduced Goetz in this Inside CT.
Caleb Stegall is editor of The New Pantagruel.
Other articles examining suburban spirituality from Christianity Today and our sister publications include:
Religion in the 'Burbs | An interview with R. Stephen Warner, sociologist of religion at University of Illinois at Chicago. (June 23, 2003)
The Bobo Future | "Bourgeois bohemians" wield inordinate power over how we think about consumerism, morality--and faith itself (July 25, 2000)
You've Got Mail | A letter Jesus might write to the suburban church of North America (Eugene H. Peterson, Christianity Today, Oct. 25, 1999)
The Cost of Living in a Suburban Paradise (Deborah Windes, Books & Culture, Jan/Feb 1998)
When Your Neighborhood Changes You | How three Twin Cities churches have adjusted to reach their rapidly changing community (Leadership Journal, Spring 2003)