Rod Dreher sounded the alarm over the dissolution of Christian culture in his book the Benedict Option. The culture wars are lost in his judgment. We can resist by following his prescription in Live not By Lies, where we refuse to endorse the counter-narrative of wokery and secular equity.
But Christians are not Stoics. And so Dreher is working on his riposte to ‘wokery’, which concerns the project of the ‘re-enchantment’ of the West. In looking at the world in a mechanical, political and rationalistic way, we have given up our access to the journey of the heart, soul and imagination. Re-enchantment is the process of a rediscovery of the power of the spirit.
