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“Head for higher ground” is probably the best four-word encapsulation of the Benedict Option https://t.co/VdvLWA6iTh @roddreher

— J. Arthur Bloom (@j_arthur_bloom) January 21, 2016

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