TOM MELTON, pastor, Greenwood Community Church, Greenwood Village, Colorado
“When you’re tired and beat up, you want an answer, you don’t want a lecture. What you want is help, and [Goetz] has done that.”

CALGARY HERALD
“Refreshingly, Goetz’s influences are varied, and not strictly Christian; he advocates serious examination of motives and actions in everyday life and offers hope and some answers that are sure to provoke thought in the most cynical of thinkers.”

DENVER POST
“Goetz is both funny and self-revealing … who uses hipster phrases and describes his religion as rooted in ‘a more conservative tribal background.’”

ORLANDO SENTINEL
“Goetz’s witty new book … deals with desperate housewives, clueless husbands and stressed children — and the spirit-deadening alienation sometimes found in their housing tracts and cul-de-sacs.”

CATHOLIC WRITER FR. RICHARD ROHR, O.F.M., author of Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
Many have been waiting for Death by Suburb without realizing it. It addresses and overcomes the split in our religion, our lifestyles, and even our consciousness. If you want to put a lot of things back together, read this fine book.”

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR LEIGH SCHMIDT, author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality
In the current raft of advice books, good cheer and sunshine are easy to come by, but Goetz lets the dimness and shadows of the suburbs show, the malaise and frustration of soccer moms and dads on their way to who knows where in the lumbering safety and comfort of their SUVs. 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.”

WILLIAM H. WILLIMON, FORMERLY DEAN OF THE CHAPEL, DUKE UNIVERSITY, author of Sinning Like a Christian
“God has given Dave Goetz a gift for seeing beyond the well-manicured lawns and the upwardly mobile kids belted in the SUV on their way to success as their suburban parents define it. He 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.”

MIAMI HERALD
“You might be dying in the ‘burbs if you: work 60 hours a week to buy a McMansion, leaving no time for the spiritual or even your family; pressure your kids to produce A-studded report cards and belt out home runs to show what a great parent you are; become anxiety-ridden over what your neighbors seem to be enjoying, from a Lexus to an Alaskan cruise. Envy poisons the soul. So does the anxiety of trying to fit in and keeping track of others’ possessions.

“Goetz says he has solutions to such angst: Find the spiritual. He recommends taking the time to attend worship services. Read your holy book. Take a religion class. Meditate. Help other people. Lose yourself in serving God. And don’t tell yourself that you don’t have the time.”

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