ABOUT YOU: FULLY HUMAN, FULLY ALIVE

In About You, Dick Staub addresses irreligious, religious, spiritual seekers and all kinds of Christians and shows us that Jesus came to satisfy our universal longing for a fully human life, not to establish a narrow us versus them religion. In short, Jesus didn't come to make us Christian; Jesus came to make us fully human. In a fresh exploration of the ancient Biblical stories of creation, fall and redemption, Staub explains that salvation is not about going to heaven when we die; it is about a full and abundant life now. In practical, down-to-earth, language, About You deals with this concept on three levels: anthropologically (our common story and universal human needs), theologically (God’s awareness and response to our needs), and practically (how we can attain and maintain a more complete and satisfying life).
Staub's previous book (The Culturally Savvy Christian) was selected by Kirkus Reviews for their 2007 Religion and Spirituality edition. This new book is designed to help those who are seeking a way to integrate both a fully alive spirituality and a fully alive humanity—a way that is embodied in the often-misunderstood life and teaching of Jesus Christ. This groundbreaking book illuminates the path towards becoming the best version of yourself.

A noted interpreter of faith and culture, Dick Staub is an award-winning broadcaster, writer, and speaker who is fascinated with today's spiritual quest, so often disconnected from organized religion. He is the host of The Kindlings Muse podcast, an intelligent, imaginative, hospitable exploration of ideas, sparked by our shared experiences in art, movies, books, and music (www.TheKindlings.com). He is the author ofChristian Wisdom of the Jedi Masters, The CulturallySavvy Christian (both from Jossey-Bass) and TooChristian, Too Pagan.

Preface: Our Shared Story.
Acknowledgments.
I. Human Potential and Our Universal Dilemma.
Chapter One: You Are a Masterpiece.
II. Primal Humans: The Collective Memory of the Way We Were.
Chapter Two: Created.
Chapter Three: In God's Image.
Chapter Four: Together.
Chapter Five: Our Ancestral Homeland.
III. The Human Problem: Our Devastating Diminishment and Dehumanization.
Chapter Six: Fallen, Broken, and Sick Unto Death.
Chapter Seven: Alone in a Hostile Land.
IV. Your Path to Fully Human: The Way to Fully Alive and Fully Human.
Chapter Eight: Coming to Your Senses.
Chapter Nine: Returning.
Chapter Ten: Awaking from the Dead.
V. Progressing to Fully Human: Making All Things New.
Chapter Eleven: The Humanizing Jesus.
Chapter Twelve: Restoring.
Chapter Thirteen: Your Design, Your Destiny.
Chapter Fourteen: And in the End, a Beginning.
Afterword.
Notes.
The Author.