Rod Dreher

“To love requires loving others and letting others love you.”

— Rod Dreher

“Art really does instruct us in how to think, feel, and behave. To be an artist is to have great power. To…

— Rod Dreher

“With a few exceptions, conservative Christian political activists are as ineffective as White Russian exiles, drinking tea from samovars in their Paris…

— Rod Dreher

“The overweight person diets not to punish him- or herself for being heavy but to become healthier. The athlete works out not…

— Rod Dreher

“A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God.”

— Rod Dreher

“For the traditional Christian, establishing internal order is not mere discipline, nor is it simply an act of will. Rather, it is…

— Rod Dreher

If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices,…

— Rod Dreher

“In his book After Virtue, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre likened the present cultural moment to the fall of the Roman Empire in the…

— Rod Dreher

“It is not feasible for most of us to abandon the Internet entirely. But at the very least we can impose on…

— Rod Dreher

“Father Martin said that those who think stability is meant to hold you back, and to stifle personal and spiritual growth, are…

— Rod Dreher

Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

— Rod Dreher

As it turns out, the ecological catastrophe Kirk feared that would be the consequence of our impiety appears not to be one…

— Rod Dreher

“Here's how to get started with the antipolitical politics of the Benedict Option. Secede culturally from the mainstream. Turn off the television.…

— Rod Dreher

“Inferno was for learning about the nature of our sins. Purgatorio is for learning how to overcome our tendencies to fall victim…

— Rod Dreher

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and…

— Rod Dreher

“I am responsible for myself. Every time I do the things I shouldn't do or fail to do the things I should…

— Rod Dreher

“This kind of thing is why more and more Christian parents are concluding that they cannot afford to keep their children in…

— Rod Dreher

“Though Donald Trump won the presidency in part with the strong support of Catholics and Evangelicals, the idea that someone as robustly…

— Rod Dreher

“Ideology is the enemy of joyful community life, and the most destructive ideology is the belief that creating utopia is possible.”

— Rod Dreher

It's not easy being a green conservative, but if we conservatives want to be true to our principles we have to move…

— Rod Dreher

“I began to wonder what, exactly, mainstream conservatism was conserving. It dawned on me that some of the causes championed by my…

— Rod Dreher

“This, it occurred to me, was the deeper meaning in the mournful merriment I had been part of that day. I stood…

— Rod Dreher

“If you are going to put down spiritual roots, taught Benedict, you need to stay in one place long enough for them…

— Rod Dreher

“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”7 As”

— Rod Dreher

“The medieval conception of reality is an old idea, one that predates Christianity. In his final book The Discarded Image, C. S.…

— Rod Dreher