I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture. — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“Art really does instruct us in how to think, feel, and behave. To be an artist is to have great power. To be the… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“With a few exceptions, conservative Christian political activists are as ineffective as White Russian exiles, drinking tea from samovars in their Paris drawing rooms,… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“The overweight person diets not to punish him- or herself for being heavy but to become healthier. The athlete works out not because he… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God.” — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“For the traditional Christian, establishing internal order is not mere discipline, nor is it simply an act of will. Rather, it is what theologian… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“In his book After Virtue, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre likened the present cultural moment to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. He… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“It is not feasible for most of us to abandon the Internet entirely. But at the very least we can impose on ourselves a… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“Father Martin said that those who think stability is meant to hold you back, and to stifle personal and spiritual growth, are missing the… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one of radically… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
