Religion and Politics

Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision

The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman profiles Rod Dreher, the conservative Christian blogger who wrote the recently published book, The Benedict Option. Rothman writes that Dreher, who is an Eastern Orthodox convert, believes that “Christians should consider living in tight-knit, faith-centered communities, in the manner of Modern Orthodox Jews. They should follow rules and take vows. They should admit that the culture wars had been lost—same-sex marriage was the law of the land—and focus on their own spiritual lives.”

Read at The New Yorker

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