When I first heard the term “Benedict Option” I thought it referred to the popular movement to elect Benedict Cumberbatch as the leader of the Free World, and as such, was all about it.
Upon further research, it appears that the Benedict Option is the plan to “construct local forms of community as loci of Christian resistance” against a corrupt and immoral American empire, and as such, I’m iffy. (I don’t like to call it “wrong,” because its basic tenets are what the Catholic Church has always been saying (also, it’s Rod Dreher’s mind-baby, and he was recently very kind to me) so I will call it perturbing, as in, “full of pertinent and yet still somewhat turbulent claims.”)
Read Full Article »