Why do I bother? Because I’m a masochist. Shaun Kenney at Ethika Politika today:
This is my problem with the Benedict Option in a nutshell:
The Benedict Option is about forming communities that teach us and help us to live in such a way that our entire lives are witnesses to the transforming power of the Gospel.
This statement is totally meaningless. The Church does this. Why do we need a Benedict Option?
Good lord.
My friend Jesse Cone asks:
Question: If Laurus is to Orthodoxy what The Power and the Glory is to Roman Catholicism, what’s the analogous novel for Protestantism?
Readers?
A throwdown is underway in Tallahassee between some Catholic parents and their bishop:
The Rev. Roy C Marien will be installed as John Paul II Catholic High School president on July 1. The Panhandle priest has written two novels that some parents find vulgar for their use of slang and the sexual depiction of teenage girls.
Alan Jacobs says as far as he can tell, the Benedict Option stems from these three principles: