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Lent and the Unintentional Hermit
For some time now I’ve been meaning to post this quote from the beginning of Leah Libresco’s Building the Benedict Option: I’ve never felt called to imitate Saint Simeon Stylites. I’ve never sensed God calling me to build a pillar … Continue reading
The Basic Question of the Benedict Option
I finished Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option. As a friend recently said: if you’ve been reading Dreher’s blog for a while, you totally know what you’re getting in this book. The only thing that really stood out from the book-version … Continue reading
Dovetailing Dreher and Smith
The last couple of weeks have brought a number of reactions to Rod Dreher’s eagerly-awaited book on conservative Christians in contemporary culture, The Benedict Option. For many, it’s been an interesting litmus test for where particular “personalities” in the Christian … Continue reading
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Benedict Option Debrief
A couple of days ago, I posted a video of Rod Dreher talking about “the Benedict Option.” It’s been both an interesting and controversial topic, a kind of Rorschach test for Christians and their understandings of the relationship between church … Continue reading
Understanding the Benedict Option
Yesterday I used the storyline of Kung Fu Panda 3 as a segue into talking about Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option. Here’s a talk that Dreher gave last year at a Q Conference (learn more about that organization here). In the video, … Continue reading
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