How to build a community in the 'new Dark Ages'

In her recent book, Building the Benedict Option (Ignatius Press), author Leah Libresco explains that, like other Christian writers and bloggers such as Rod Dreher, author of The Benedict Option, she found her inspiration from philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s influential work, After Virtue.

MacIntyre, having surveyed the arid modern world of philosophical discourse, had written:

“What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us…We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another – doubtless very different – St Benedict.”