Religion

Photo by Rod Dreher

Researching the Benedict Option book, I’m up to my eyeballs in reading about medieval philosophy, nominalism, univocity, and all the rest. A reader interested in the Benedict Option writes to ask:

Marriage rests upon the immutable givens that compose it: words, bodies, characters, histories, places. Some wishes cannot succeed; some victories cannot be won; some loneliness is incorrigible. But there is relief and freedom in knowing what is real; these givens come to us out of the perennial reality of the world, like the terrain we live on. One does not care for this ground to make it a different place, or to make it perfect, but to make it inhabitable and to make it better. To flee from its realities is only to arrive at them unprepared.

A couple of readers have sent me a column by the Catholic priest Fr. Dwight Longenecker, in which he lists Twelve Reasons Why Progressive Christianity Will Die Out. Here’s how he sets up the list:

Father Matthew and the flooded Bayou Sara

Twisted so called Islamic State jihadis are raping Yazidi women captives on the orders of their chiefs. It followed a decree that a yazidi slave who is raped by ten jihadis will automatically become a Muslim, even though in Islam rape and slavery are forbidden, according to some Imams. It is believed that in Iraq around 3,500 people, mostly women and children from the Yazidi community, are currently being kept as slaves by Daesh. The Daily Express reports: As part of their religion, the Yazidi women worship the sun.