✣ Highlights from the week online
Is US Christianity in a state of emergency? Christian bloggers are currently debating a new book from the Orthodox writer Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: a Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.
In The Week, Damon Linker summarises the book’s argument as follows: “Christian conservatives need to practise ‘a new kind of Christian politics’ – or an ‘antipolitical politics’ – that follows the example of the religious order that St Benedict of Nursia founded in the 6th century to preserve and foster Christian civilisation as the Roman Empire decayed and crumbled around it.”
