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Bookmark or Share- The Hole in Wendell Berry’s Gospel - PloughWhen I read Berry’s poems and essays, I sense he and I are kindred spirits. But when I consider family tales of shattered relationships, addiction, and mental illness buried under agrarian beauty, I’m troubled by the evils Berry chooses to overlook.
- Building a Communal Church: An Interview with Rod Dreher - PloughRod Dreher: The name comes from Alasdair MacIntyre’s 1981 book After Virtue, which compares our society’s situation with the time after the fall of the Roman Empire. MacIntyre writes that we are waiting for a new and quite different Saint Benedict to teach us how to live in community again because we’ve become so fragmented.
- Singing God's Grandeur: The All-or-Nothing Life of Gerard Manley ...Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
- Getting Practical with the Benedict Option - PloughIn The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, the former Protestant, then Catholic, now Orthodox layman Rod Dreher makes the case that the culture wars of the past fifty years have concluded and that the good guys – by which he means Christian conservatives – have suffered a decisive loss. In response, Dreher ...
- Benedict Option Event Transcripts - PloughIn this public conversation, Rod Dreher proposes a strategy for building up communities of faith that are robust enough to flourish in a hostile culture, and discusses his new book The Benedict Option with a panel of respondents including New York Times columnist Ross Douthat; Jacqueline Rivers, Executive Director of the Seymour Institute on ...
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