Dick Staub's new book The Culturally Savvy Christian is receiving great reviews from readers, as well as critics.
  
• Dick discusses some of the ideas from The Culturally Savvy Christian on YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dick+staub&search=Search)
 
• A few readers have reported buying 10 or 20 copies and sending them to friends as a "must read" gift. It is easy to do at Amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0787978930/ref=cm_arms_pdp_dp/102-9457521-0336953). If you are a prime member there is no charge for shipping!
 
• A bunch of pastors are organizing adult study groups around the book; Steve Rabey used it in his "Faith and Culture" class at Fuller Seminary extension. 
 
• Dick was invited to speak to a publisher's gathering about the importance of cover design's synergy with content. (Poet Luci Shaw was quoted as saying, "Yikes! What a Cover!")
 
Enjoy some reader comments below—then read the book and keep recommending it to your friends!
 
• I just finished reading THE CSC. The writing was excellent: thought-provoking, intelligent and accessible. My hi-lighter nearly went dry.
 
• I just picked up a copy of Dick Staub's The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite. Heavy title with equally heavy content. I'm only through the first two chapters and already am blown away…I have a feeling many more posts will come out of this. Check it out.
—Cre8vE Chaos
 
• The title might have scared me off. The Culturally Savvy Christian sounds unnervingly like that book I've long feared some well-meaning twit would write one day: How to Be Hip Though Christian. Trusting the author, Dick Staub, not to be a twit, I pre-ordered the book several months ago; it arrived yesterday. I'm not disappointed. In fact, I'm one-third of the way through, and already I find in this book empathy and clarification for issues that have troubled me a long time.
—K Popa
 
• Your book is critical for sake of the Kingdom. It is far more important than you or your success. Lean hard, press on.
—John S
 
• The new book, what can I say? I laughed. I cried. I felt one with the cosmos. I craved macaroni and cheese for three weeks. I did the "Hokey Pokey" and turned myself around until I couldn't stand up. And I ordered more copies to give to others who are (or want to be) culturally sensitive Christians. Thanks so much!
—Dave S.

"The KindlingsMuse" (http://www.thekindlings.com) host Dick Staub, author of The Culturally Savvy Christian: A Manifesto for Deepening Faith and Enriching Popular Culture in an Age of Christianity-Lite (April 2007): An intelligent, imaginative, hospitable exploration of ideas that matter in contemporary life originating from Hale's Ales Pub and Brewery.

Kindling: material to light a fire; to produce warmth and an illuminating glow.  
Muse: to spark creative thought; engage in meditation; consider thoughtfully.

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