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Posts in category “Benedict Option”

Against Liberal ‘Performative Wokeness’

Sentimentality cannot bear too much of liquid modernity’s reality

Posted January 30th, 2018

An Interview With Hans Boersma

Talking sacramentality and the future of Christianity with the Reformed theologian

Posted January 28th, 2018

Underestimating American Collapse

Something we refuse to see leaves us vulnerable to something we do not understand

Posted January 26th, 2018

The Civiltà Cattolica Smear

Do you believe in Christian moral seriousness? Jesuit journal says you’re flirting with heresy

Posted January 24th, 2018

Warning Shot Fired At Christians

University diversity commissars warn Christians not to make one false move

Posted January 23rd, 2018

Christianity Needs Precipice Thinkers

An Australian pastor says that discipleship is now more important than evangelism

Posted January 23rd, 2018

The Benedict Option & Section 8

Exclude Section 8 tenants, says reader, and you turn Christianity into a middle-class hobby

Posted January 23rd, 2018

Justin Trudeau’s Illiberal Liberalism

Canadian PM lives out the Law of Merited Impossibility

Posted January 22nd, 2018

The Donatist Option

My response to the Benedict Option review in La Civiltà Cattolica

Posted January 18th, 2018

‘We Cannot Save Them’

A faithful Catholic mom’s despair over Catholic higher education

Posted January 18th, 2018

Jordan Peterson-izing The Ben Op

The Benedict Option is not a defeatist tract, but an empowering one

Posted January 17th, 2018

Why Don’t People Want To Know?

Christianity and religious liberty are declining rapidly. Shouldn’t Christians want to be undeceived about this?

Posted January 15th, 2018

Integralism, Liberalism, Or … What?

In search of a middle ground between the unity of Church and State, and militant secularism

Posted January 11th, 2018

Classical Liberalism Strikes Out

An interview with the author of Why Liberalism Failed

Posted January 9th, 2018

The Jedi Option

Watching Star Wars: The Last Jedi through Benedict Option eyes

Posted January 8th, 2018

Seeking God — And Finding Him In Norcia

A pre-earthquake documentary about the Benedictine monks there

Posted January 7th, 2018

The Church Vs. Liberalism Smash-Up

How should orthodox Christians brace themselves for the inevitable car wreck?

Posted January 6th, 2018