Does the Methodist example of social engagement offer Christians and traditionalists a constructive alternative today to cultural withdrawal and/or cultural conformity?
Some Christians despairing of America after the imposition of same sex marriage are tempted by the the so-called Benedict Option, which urges figurative withdrawal into walled monasteries, as during the so-called Dark Ages, where Christians can quietly rebuild an alternative godly culture. Others are succumbing to a form of pietistic separatism that holds the nation somewhat distastefully at arm’s length. Still others embrace a kind of casual Libertarianism that comfortably accepts laws and social mores starkly at odds with Christian teaching, while affirming orthodoxy and traditional morals inside the church.
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