Some of the most tactically effective defenses of religious liberty rely on appeals to theories of rights or alliances with candidates who cut against the core of your faith. These strategies can win the battle but lose the war. Continue Reading »
Any community of refuge, especially a Benedict Option community, must find a way for its members to support one another in moving from fear to courage, scarcity to charity, walls to windows. Continue Reading »
There are times in history when Christianity feels its place in society coming under threat. As it finds itself pushed to the margins, two temptations emerge. The first is an angry sense of entitlement, an impulse to denounce the entire world and withdraw into cultural isolation. In the early . . . . Continue Reading »
In order to pray for the people the Devil wants us to see as enemies, we need to see them as people. Continue Reading »
The Republic of Virtue: How We Tried to Ban Corruption, Failed, and What We Can Do About It by f. h. buckley encounter, 296 pages, $25.99 Something is rotten in the states of America. F. H. Buckley, law professor at George Mason University, believes patronage networks and crony capitalism . . . . Continue Reading »
Contrary to some analyses, Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option does not call for a retreat from political life. Continue Reading »
America’s conservative Christians should consider not only joining the vigils, but also visiting Ahok in his jail cell. Continue Reading »
The Benedict Option: Whatever we label it, it is something to which all Christians everywhere are called. Continue Reading »
There’s something very right about Rod Dreher’s call to action in The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. He urges us to ask if we have “compromised too much with the world” and suggests ways to renew the integrity of our religious communities. Yet . . . . Continue Reading »
Published within months of each other, three books share the belief that traditional Christians are now a moral . . . . Continue Reading »
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