Rod Dreher
Two cheers for David French
By Mark Silk — February 24, 2023
(RNS) — The new New York Times columnist upholds principles his conservative tribe has abandoned.
National Conservatism Conference puts the best and worst of the GOP on display
By Jacob Lupfer — September 17, 2022
(RNS) — Conservatism may have something to say about important issues, but it will need more worthy messengers.
Dreher’s war, part 2
By Mark Silk — May 12, 2022
(RNS) — The second of two columns on how America’s best-known Orthodox Christian writer looks at the war in Ukraine.
Dreher’s war, part 1
By Mark Silk — April 30, 2022
(RNS) — The first of two columns on how America's best-known Orthodox Christian writer looks at the war in Ukraine.
A white woman’s response to the ‘Prayer of a Weary Black Woman’
By Amy Julia Becker — April 9, 2021
(RNS) — Her prayer makes me uneasy, but may help me see why Chanequa Walker-Barnes may hate someone like me.
How Eric Metaxas went from Trump despiser to true believer
By Bob Smietana — December 3, 2020
(RNS) — How a onetime aspiring public intellectual and Trump doubter turned into a true believer in stolen elections.
Eric Metaxas confirms he punched protester, says protester was to blame
By Jack Jenkins and Emily McFarlan Miller — September 1, 2020
(RNS) — Last week, a viral video began circulating on social media showing a man who closely resembles Eric Metaxas striking a protester and running away backward.
Why do the Covington Catholic kids get the benefit of the doubt?
By Laura Turner — January 25, 2019
(RNS) — The national conversation about the confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial should always have been how we treat Native Americans, older people, and the marginalized, not whether a white kid got a bad rap in the media.
The Benedict Option for discrimination
By Mark Silk — October 26, 2018
The Trump Administration is making America more comfortable for conservative Christians.
Who among us? What the Kavanaugh hearings can teach us about forgiveness
By Katelyn Beaty — September 28, 2018
(RNS) — Time might make memories fuzzy, but it doesn’t erase physical, emotional and spiritual wounds.
How American Christians can break free from ‘slaveholder religion’
By Jonathan Merritt — May 2, 2018
(RNS) — It's been 150 years since the Civil War ended, but does the racist theology remain?
Should Christians abandon public schools?
By Andrea Ramirez — April 27, 2017
(RNS) There is no 'one size fits all' schooling solution for Christian parents as we guide them to love the Lord with all their hearts, minds and strength.
Keep religious conservatives involved in American life
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 24, 2017
(RNS) Rod Dreher might consider retreating from the secularizing forces of modernity to a more ascetic lifestyle. But he doesn’t need to take the rest of upper-middle-class white Christianity with him.
Benedict, not Benedictine
By Martin E. Marty — February 23, 2017
...my Benedictine friends distance themselves from the strictly “Benedict” version, despite some corollaries, coincidences, and common sources.
Kim Davis’ indefensible position puts traditionalists on the spot (COMMENTARY)
By Jacob Lupfer — September 11, 2015
(RNS) Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has hindered the public debate about religious liberty for traditionalist believers at a time when it needs serious arguments, not circus-tent theatrics.
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