My discussion of Dick Staub’s book, The Culturally Savvy Christian, was interrupted for a sudden blog tour. The forecast is tour free for the next few days, so I can predict a return to the previous topic. Here’s the first post, to refresh things.
The book is broken into three sections based off of this statement:
The culturally savvy Christian is serious about faith, savvy about faith and culture, and skilled in relating the two.
First, under “savvy,” Staub makes the case for both popular culture and Christianity being generally shallow and vacuous. Pop culture is described as being superficial and soulless, spiritually deluded, but it has a powerful influence (p5). Yet he doesn’t pull punches with modern American Christianity