894. Why a NYT Bestseller Written by a Catholic Shares How Mormons Are Getting Religion Right --For home and visiting teachers!
Why a NYT Bestseller Written by a Catholic Shares How Mormons Are Getting Religion Right Are Mormons Leading the Way Again? By Joni Hilton · August 9, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please CLICK HERE After watching American churches crumble when it comes to gathering young adherents, and observing that many sects backpedal their positions on social issues as they grow more and more secular, author Rod Dreher proposes a drastic solution. He advocates going the other way—constructing a counterculture that embraces the ideas of St. Benedict of Nursia. His controversial suggestion has become a bestseller called The Benedict Option. In his book, Dreher observes that communities are losing their connectivity, their sense of belonging. People no longer watch out for one another as they did in years gone by, and families are fragmented. He urges the world to pull away from the world and embrace the ancient Christian lifestyle set forth b