Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

by Rod Dreher

But truth cannot be separated from tears. To live in truth requires accepting suffering.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance—first of all, over our own hearts.

But as Father Tomislav Kolaković taught his disciples as the shadow of Soviet totalitarianism grew long over their land, seeing is only the first step. Think about what you see. Get together with others to talk about what you are all seeing. Analyze the facts and discern how your faith and your moral convictions should be applied concretely to the situation. Then act—while there is still time.

The Marxist Mordor was real, but the faith of those who resisted outlasted it, because hard totalitarianism met something harder: the truth.

Our cause appears lost . . . but we are still here! Now our mission is to build the underground resistance to the occupation to keep alive the memory of who we were and who we are, and to stoke the fires of desire for the true God.