Religion

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:

Reformed theologian Carl Trueman has pretty much come out as a supporter of the Benedict Option. He came to hear my speech in Baltimore the other night, and says it answered some of the questions he had about the Benedict Option. Excerpt:

The talk on Friday night made all of that clear. And it offered an outline of the assumptions of the Ben Op, which might be summarized as follows: