Tips for
Small Group Study


1. Use Death by Suburb as an 8-week study on the spiritual disciplines.

2. Each week study one of the 8 chapters that explain the suburban toxins and the spiritual practices that counter them.

3. Download the free discussion guide for a list of questions to guide the discussion for each chapter.

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Archive for January, 2006

If It Makes You Happy, Then Why Are You So Sad?

Friday, January 27th, 2006

The suburbs create an environment of chronic discontent.

Kids—the Perfect
Immortality Symbols

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Immortality symbols confer glory on you.

Are You Really Trapped?

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

The suburbs seem to produce a class a folks who feel trapped. Are we really trapped?

What Are the Toxins?

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

One deadly toxin is the constant positioning for status.

Advance Praise for
Death by Suburb


"Death by Suburb ... addresses and overcomes the split in our religion, our lifestyles, and even our consciousness."
—Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M., author of Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

"With a compassion born of his own experiences of suburban unreality and dysfunction, Goetz effectively evokes a thicker sense of our social and religious worlds."
—Leigh Schmidt, Princeton University, author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality

"Goetz sees the parched lives, the truncated spirits beneath the suburban bliss, and the grace too. In his gracious eyes suburbia begins to look like an outbreak of the Kingdom of God."
—William H. Willimon, author of Sinning Like a Christian