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[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Rod Dreher and I aren’t close friends, but like many Front Porch Regulars, I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to associate with and learn from him a handful of times over the years, and like tens of thousands of his...

Painting of Babylon captivity, circa 1920. Photo courtesy of Gebhard Fugel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons An analysis by DAVID GIBSON © 2014 Religion News Service From the moment they set foot on North American soil, the Puritans who came...

Links from the last week. This will be the last such post for a while, as I won’t be posting any over Lent. Putting Work in Its Place. An immensely stimulating discussion of the current problems with work in the light of Hegel’s understanding of the...

BenOp in WSJ By ROD DREHER • July 24, 2015, 2:47 PM Statue of St. Benedict, in the town square of Norcia, his birthplace Greetings from the beach. We are packing up to head home today. It’s going to rain late this afternoon, and the kids are worn...

Did you hear that Leah Libresco and friends had a get-together in DC last week to talk about the Benedict Option? Eve Tushnet did some great blogging about it. This lengthy post of mine is in response to hers. In her first entry, Eve writes: “Benedict...