The Benedict Option

I read Rod Dreher’s new book, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. Christians, he argues, must realize we have lost the culture wars. He compares the situation to the fall of the Roman empire. Christianity survived through Christians gathering in intentional community, where they preserved their heritage and also had…

On Social Justice

A Lutheran congregation’s blog posted an article this week denouncing “social justice” as unbiblical and “Marxist.” Equality, they said, is a human idea.  Justice, a Marxist one. They’re wrong. Equality is rooted in the doctrine of Creation.  God created humanity from the dust of the earth; he created us male and female.  We’re all descendants…