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.
5. Sign up with your email address to receive regular blog updates by the author.
6. Add your suburban story of The Thicker Life to the blog.
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
The second half of life is like descending a mountain.
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
I’m always startled by how ordinary true spirituality is.
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
One of the greatest dangers of the good life is becoming numb to the suffering around us
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Monday, February 20th, 2006
The real troubles in your life are apt to be the things that never crossed your mind.
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Thursday, February 9th, 2006
“Most suburban kids are so scheduled they might as well have a PDA.”
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
Your next free Saturday morning is in 2012.
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Friday, January 27th, 2006
The suburbs create an environment of chronic discontent.
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
Immortality symbols confer glory on you.
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
The suburbs seem to produce a class a folks who feel trapped. Are we really trapped?
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
One deadly toxin is the constant positioning for status.
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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
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