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.

4. Download Dave's Favorite Writers for additional resources on Christian spirituality.

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End of the Dream

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

So your son got an academic scholarship plus some money to play college soccer!

What about Me?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Many struggle to break through the adolescent cocoon of spirituality.

Silence for Whimps

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Silence really doesn’t make sense in life’s adolescent phase (which starts around 11 and these days runs, uh, into one’s 40s).

Thomas Merton on Suffering

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

An Alternative Advent Message

Monday, December 11th, 2006

The hope of Advent may actually be the promise of grace in January.

The Invitation to Descend

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

It is the male who must learn to descend in the second half of life, since he has through career, privilege, and position ascended in the first half.

Nomadic Spirituality

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Too often the so-called deeper spiritual life is romantacized.

I’m Deep, Aren’t You?

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

How nice that we’re all so deep!

Bailing Out of the ‘Burbs

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Doesn’t Jesus require a more radical form of discipleship?

My Bright Child, My Bright Self

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Positioning is the attempt to control how your neighbors or acquaintenances think of you.

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