In my post on the firing of Taylor University philosophy professor Jim Spiegel, I wrote: Should he be fired for “Little Hitler”? I can’t answer that question. I would need to know more about the local culture on campus at...
Check out John Allen‘s interview with Father Juan Julian Carron, leader of the Catholic movement Communion and Liberation. Carron offers some important reflections on how Christians need to live in this world. I hope the court evangelicals are reading. Here...
Check out Joshua Rothman‘s article on Rod Dreher, author of The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. There was a time when a secular New York magazine like The New Yorker couldn’t have cared less about a...
Check out Jeffrey Bilbro‘s review of Ragan Sutterfield‘s Wendell Berry and the Given Life over at Christianity Today. Here is a taste: Berry has been an important voice for the last 40 years, but I can see at least two...
We have done a few posts here on Rod Dreher’s book The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. Over at his website, Christian writer Andy Crouch offers a very witty take on the reception of the...
Alternative title for this post: “The heroes of Rod’s book are almost all monks.” David Brooks has reviewed Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option. Here is a taste: Rod is pre-emptively surrendering when in fact some practical accommodation is entirely possible....
Are American Christians being persecuted for their faith? I am not sure persecution is the right word. No one is coming into the homes of Christians with weapons threatening to kill them if they do not publicly denounce their faith....
In his March 2017 Christianity Today cover story, conservative writer Rod Dreher introduces evangelicals to “The Benedict Option.” I like Dreher’s published works. I read his book Crunchy Cons at a time in my intellectual journey when I was also...
