Rod Dreher

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Posts in category “Benedict Option”

Patriotism

Loving Louisiana, giving thanks for the Red Cross and for men with boats

Posted August 14th, 2016

The Perfect Storm

Hard drive crash, losing last chapter in manuscript, Apple store closed due to flooding — but G.K. Chesterton to the rescue?

Posted August 13th, 2016

Inside The Head Of Trump Voters

Understanding the moral psychology of this moment in US politics — and how liberals are making it worse

Posted August 12th, 2016

Benedict Option Covers

Here are two possibilities for the book cover. Which do you prefer, and why?

Posted August 12th, 2016

Exporting The Anti-Culture

Modernity poisons tradition and kills the spirit too. But there are good and bad ways to resist it

Posted August 10th, 2016

Can Christians Afford The Leadership We Have?

They’re either fighting yesterday’s battles, fighting for the enemy, or not fighting at all

Posted August 8th, 2016

Benedict Option Countries

Might conservative US Christians in the future migrate abroad in search of religious liberty?

Posted August 5th, 2016

‘The Stalingrad Of Irish Catholicism’

A view of Christian Ireland by a non-Christian Irishman

Posted August 3rd, 2016

Ideas Have Consequences 2016

Richard Weaver, H.G. Wells, and the soul of man under Trumpism

Posted August 2nd, 2016

L’Option Benoît

Pierre Manent: Western Civ crumbling, much depends on surviving Christian remnant

Posted August 1st, 2016

Ben Op Book Update

Need help on the Work chapter. Can you give it to me?

Posted July 29th, 2016

The Benedict Option Still Stands

Because for faithful Christians, there is nothing else

Posted July 21st, 2016

The Coming Christian Collapse

Why the Christian establishment today is like the GOP leadership in the Age of Trump

Posted July 15th, 2016

Exiting The Public Schools

CA pastor leaves public school board: ‘They mean to indoctrinate your children in their radical secularism’

Posted July 7th, 2016

Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati Day

Italian Chestertonians celebrate independence from the tyranny of the Everlasting Now

Posted July 4th, 2016

The Anti-Christian State of California

Religious liberty increasingly on the ropes there. What does this mean for future of America?

Posted July 2nd, 2016

The New Jacobin Normal

The world during and after the Sexual Revolution

Posted June 29th, 2016