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On Dreher’s Benedict Option, the Christians and Localists Who Can Live It, and the Ones Who Can’t
...Option solution in your life (p. 197, 200-201). If you’re not, though, then the Benedict Option probably won’t be necessary. Of course, ideas have a life of their own,…
Fidelity to the Truth in an Illiberal Time, on Rod Dreher’s Live Not by Lies
...The Benedict Option was published. For example, Dreher barely even mentions religious liberty in Live Not by Lies, whereas in The Benedict Option he contends that “religious liberty is…
Hanging Out with, and Learning from, Some Thoroughly Material Benedictines
...some comparison tasting of goat’s milk, and helped rescue a 4-month-old colt who’d gotten herself trapped under a fence, I kept thinking about something entirely different: Rod Dreher’s “Benedict…
Benedict Option in Baltimore
The Academy of Philosophy and Letters 2016 Conference Contact me if you need more information. polet@hope.edu...
Soil and Sacrament in Certain Kinds of Cities
...with some other symposium participants about it all, and listening to Rod’s continuing explorations of the Benedict Option, I came home with a huge load of thoughts banging around…
Asceticism is for Everyone
Those who are inclined to agree with Patrick Deneen (and others) that liberalism has indeed failed may ask what way of life would be more conducive to human flourishing.…
Why Anti-Liberalism Fails
...The Benedict Option itself depends on all the things the benedictines do not wish to do. The Benedict Option itself depends on all the things the benedictines do not…
Another Option for Christian Politics
...the Benedict Option. Associated with Rod Dreher, blogger at The American Conservative, the “BenOp” sees in the decadence of the ex-Christian West an existential threat to the integrity of…
Gauntlets
...make one seek strategies to help them through the bleak future. I do hear this "Benedict Option" spoken of often but rarely see much more other than "well we…
Freedom Is Not The Good
...option, the Benedict option, the Amish option – or so far as possible we must actively seek to dislodge and replace liberalism’s decaying tenets with those of the Church.…
Patriotic Subversives: Distributism as a Political Problem
...in over-crowded cites, and similar goods, goods without which family and community life becomes precarious. There are, of course, distributists who take the opposite tack, such as the so-called…
The Bombadil Option
...faster.” Rod Dreher is well known in these parts for his interest in the Benedict Option. I share the interest, but there are times I despair for it. It’s…
Waiting for Benedict
Those long haunted by Alasdair MacIntyre’s plea at the end of After Virtue – for that matter, even those who aren’t – may wish to read Rod Dreher’s piece…
Clearing Ground
...to build culture with our families and friends, leaving the wilderness around us to stand or fall as it will? That is an option, to be sure: I guess…
Why Aren’t There More Conservative Anarchists? On Recovering a Consistent Philosophy of Conservative Anti-Statism
...For example, Rod Dreher’s work on the Benedict Option is a strategic call for small-o orthodox Christian renewal in an increasingly hostile social climate. While some of the problems…
Before Ahmari and French, Wills and Bozell
...woes of modern secular society (with its materialism, hedonism, pluralism, and unbelief) back to the disruptive effects of Protestantism. Next came Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option (2016) who, though…
Localist Linkfest
...– relativism or respect for nature — for mankind will not remain in a state of interior division forever. Another great reflection on Laudato Si’, drawing in Ornette Coleman,…
Academy of Philosophy and Letters Conference
The Academy of Philosophy and Letters will be holding its annual conference at the BWI in Baltimore on May 27-29. The Topic this year is “The Benedict Option: The…
Against Obsolescence
...richer than our forebears. But it’s hard to put a price on self-sufficiency. In terms of relationships to each other, to the land, and to God, our forebears were…
From Technological Nostalgia to Technological Faithfulness
...in his widely discussed manifesto The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, Rod Dreher claims, “Online technology, in its various forms, is a phenomenon that…
Who Was at Rod Dreher’s Super Bowl Party?
...the continuum between the Benedict Option and full-blown liberationism. But I also must confess that I get somewhat frustrated, at times, with the language of compromise, because it seems…
Front Porch Republic and the Communion of Saints
...Rod Dreher’s “Benedict option”. While we admire those exemplars of localism, we’d look forward to seeing more reflection on other exemplary ways of living in the Front Porch Republic.…
Redeeming the Polis in Matt Reeves’ The Batman
...Rod Dreher has argued in his 2017 The Benedict Option, there are a host of schools, churches, and neighborhoods attempting to rebuild America and the wider world through such…
The Voice of Communities in the Conversation of Mankind
...but not of it, so that it points towards a transcendent city that any real, human city can approach but never reach. Rod Dreher’s book The Benedict Option is…
