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Rod Dreher

Born

in St. Francisville, Louisiana , The United States

February 14, 1967

Website

https://roddreher.substack.com

Twitter

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Genre

Christian, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Influences

Alasdair MacIntyre, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Wendell Berry, G.K. Cheste ...more

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Rod Dreher is an American writer known for his work on religion, culture, and politics from a traditional Christian perspective. He holds a B.A. in Journalism from Louisiana State University and has served as senior editor and now editor-at-large of The American Conservative. His best-known books include The Benedict Option (2017) and Live Not by Lies (2020), which explore how believers can live faithfully amid secular modernity. He writes widely on religion, culture and contemporary society, and currently resides in Budapest, Hungary. ...more

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Against Christian Triumphalism

The late Dr. Silvo Krčmery, Catholic, survivor of communist prison, and the kind of Christian I want to be

I posted this yesterday to X. Most of this will not be news to you longtime readers, but I felt it needed saying again:

Candace to Charlie Kirk: ‘You’re too smart to be Protestant.’

Earlier today, somebody posted to Twitter this link featuring Candace Owens at some right-wing Catholi

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Rod Dreher’s books

Average rating: 4.16 · 26,268 ratings · 4,771 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents 4.34 avg rating — 7,204 ratings — published 2020 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation 3.80 avg rating — 6,619 ratings — published 2017 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life 3.91 avg rating — 2,650 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem 3.98 avg rating — 1,256 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature ... America (or at least the Republican Party) 3.90 avg rating — 878 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age 3.97 avg rating — 815 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plough Quarterly No. 11 - Alien Citizens: The Politics of the Kingdom of God by Rod Dreher, Thomas Nauerth, Will Willimon 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creed & Culture II: A Touchstone Reader by Rod Dreher, James M. Kushiner (editor), Robert P. George 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comment retrouver le goût de Dieu dans un monde qui l'a chassé 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comment retrouver le goût de Dieu dans un monde qui l'a chassé 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A church that looks and talks and sounds just like the world has no reason to exist.”
― Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

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“I am a college-educated American. In all my years of formal schooling, I never read Plato or Aristotle, Homer or Virgil. I knew nothing of Greek and Roman history and barely grasped the meaning of the Middle Ages. Dante was a stranger to me, and so was Shakespeare. The fifteen hundred years of Christianity from the end of the New Testament to the Reformation were a blank page, and I knew only the barest facts about Luther's revolution. I was ignorant of Descartes and Newton. My understanding of Western history began with the Enlightenment. Everything that came before it was lost behind a misty curtain of forgetting. Nobody did this on purpose. Nobody tried to deprive me of my civilizational patrimony. But nobody felt any obligation to present it to me and my generation in an orderly, coherent fashion. Ideas have consequences - and so does their lack.”
― Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation

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“Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O’Connor wrote, “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.”
― Rod Dreher, How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem

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