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Rod Dreher

We heard from an Orthodox missionary at church yesterday, as I wrote in last night’s post. In his talk, he lamented that there is only a relative handful of Orthodox missionaries in the world. He mentioned that American Protestants are flooding Albania, where he serves, with missions, and that that’s having a big effect on…

Today is the Sunday of the Cross for Orthodox Christians, the Sunday of Lent in which we are supposed to consider the full gravity of what it meant when Jesus said, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his…

Laurie Goodstein at the NYT breaks a story about more and more people leaving Scientology telling scandalous stories about what life is allegedly like within the church. Excerpt: Raised as Scientologists, Christie King Collbran and her husband, Chris, were recruited as teenagers to work for the elite corps of staff members who keep the Church…

Gary Zukav, who wrote “The Dancing Wu Li Masters,” has this famous aphorism: Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. I thought of it when I read the following passage from Krista Tippett’s interview with John Polkinghorne, the particle physicist and theologian:…

NPR has a nice photo essay documenting occupations that are now obsolete (e.g., typist, lamplighter, copy boy). Anybody care to speculate about the occupations in our day that will likely be obsolete fifty years from now? It’s a tricky thing to predict. Thirty years ago, would anyone have predicted that we in the U.S. would…

For the sake of argument, let’s say that this morning I broke the ridiculous Pennsylvania law intended to force the state’s residents to buy wine at our state stores, and went out of state to buy a case of wine. And let’s say I went across the river into New Jersey and visited Moore Bros.…

So, let me get this straight. Icelandic bankers behaved very badly, collapsing their country’s banking system, and losing the money of scores of British and Dutch overseas depositors. The British and Dutch governments could have said to their unlucky citizens, “Sorry, but you took the risk of putting your money in an overseas bank. We…

I’ve been thinking off and on all day about what to say about David Brooks’ provocative column today, in which he compares the Tea Party Right of today with the New Left of the 1960s. Here’s an excerpt: But the core commonality is this: Members of both movements believe in what you might call mass…

We are accustomed to narratives praising good teachers and the difference they’ve made in the lives of their students. But I don’t think I’ve ever read one about what a bad teacher has wrought in a student’s life — until Emily Oren’s wrenching blog memoir of the teacher who drove her out of architecture school.…

Well, how about this: our old friend Erin Manning is organizing a campaign to pray the rosary for my cancer-stricken sister Ruthie Leming during Lent. (More about Ruthie’s situation and the amazing way she’s handling it at this link.) So far, she’s got five good people who have agreed to do so. I’m so touched…
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