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In the article "What Christians Can (and Can’t) Learn From Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option," the author writes - "I know that Rod Dreher wants less faith in politics, and more focus on building genuine Christian communities. He’s half-right: We need far more of the latter if we are going to survive." In contrast to Dreher, the author believes traditional Christians still have a chance to win political battles. But do they?Dreher's position is that "small-o orthodox" traditional Christians in America - Evangelicals, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox - simply don't have the numbers any longer to win in politics, and the surrounding post-Christian culture is picking off the younger generation of traditional Christian families. So it's high time now to form Christian communities that can weather the storm of oncoming neo-paganism. You can get Rod Dreher's recently-published book, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation  at Amazon: it tells how to apply St. Benedict's principles to Christians striving to lead a life of spiritual discipline in today's post-Christian world.If you're interested in reading the 1,500-year-old manual for Western monasticism, get The Rule of St Benedict (EPUB e-book format) by St. Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–550), written for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot. You can also read it online here. Read the full article to get the whole story! And subscribe below to get our free weekly newsletter: |