The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

by Rod Dreher

Christians are going to have to become better tellers...

I think that’s what we need, and are waiting for...a Christian leader or educator even, that can give us a story to believe in, and that rings true to seekers that are living within materialistic realm.

Beauty and goodness, embodied in great art and fiction, and in the lives of ordinary Christians, married and single, is the only thing that stands a chance.

I can almost agree 100% to this.

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“My experience is what I agree to attend to.

If you don’t control your own attention, there are plenty of people eager to do it for you.

creating a space of silence in which you can think.

virtual interaction I was not involved in a human encounter. Every second absorbed in some trivia was a second less for any form of reflection, or calm, or spirituality. “Multitasking” was a mirage. This was a zero-sum question. I either lived as a voice online or I lived as a human being in the world that humans had lived in since the beginning of time. And so I decided, after 15 years, to live in reality.

In the early twentieth century, the most progressive minds in the American establishment embraced eugenics—the pseudoscience of improving the race through controlled breeding. Leading churchmen endorsed the idea,

our machines have mastered us. Perhaps they already

culture Christians to believe that God blesses whatever makes them happy. In

This Could actually be considered a true statement, depending on how truthfully, and accurately one define “happy.”