Dec 14, 2016 · Rod Dreher: The name comes from Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 book After Virtue, which compares our society’s situation with the time after the fall of the Roman Empire. MacIntyre writes that we are waiting for a new and quite different Saint Benedict to teach us how to live in community again because we’ve become so fragmented.

Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative and the author of several books including The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.

Plough’s Peter Mommsen and New York Times-bestselling author Rod Dreher talk about Donald Trump, religious liberty, American empire, persecution, and Christian community. Portfolio American Stories John Noltner Frustrated with the world’s focus on what separates us, I set out to explore the common humanity that connects us.

In this public conversation, Rod Dreher proposes a strategy for building up communities of faith that are robust enough to flourish in a hostile culture, and discusses his new book The Benedict Option with a panel of respondents including New York Times columnist Ross Douthat; Jacqueline Rivers, Executive Director of the Seymour Institute on ...

Nov 1, 2017 · The first point comes across strongest in Eberhard Arnold and Rod Dreher. It is the sense of institutional indifference, or even hostility, to religious questions in the modern West. Arnold was writing in 1925, when Europe was heading into the peak of both Marxism and fascism as totalizing ideologies that sought to replace Christianity.

Dreher began by laying out the ideas in the book and addressing common criticisms. Four panelists responded: Ross Douthat of the New York Times , Michael Wear , a former Obama White House staffer, Jacqueline C. Rivers of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, and Randall Gauger , a Bruderhof bishop.

Aug 10, 2018 · In The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, the former Protestant, then Catholic, now Orthodox layman Rod Dreher makes the case that the culture wars of the past fifty years have concluded and that the good guys – by which he means Christian conservatives – have suffered a decisive loss. In response, Dreher ...

Dreher began by laying out the ideas in the book and addressing common criticisms. Other panelists responded, including Ross Douthat of the New York Times , Michael Wear , a former Obama White House staffer, Jacqueline C. Rivers of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, and Randall Gauger , a Bruderhof bishop.

Jan 3, 2017 · When I read Berry’s poems and essays, I sense he and I are kindred spirits. But when I consider family tales of shattered relationships, addiction, and mental illness buried under agrarian beauty, I’m troubled by the evils Berry chooses to overlook.

Mar 20, 2018 · Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;