I have been reading Rod Dreher’s dispatches from St. Francisville religiously for years now, and I eagerly awaited his newest book, Live Not By Lies. I became a regular reader of Dreher’s work around the same time I converted to Catholicism in my 20s, about a decade after Dreher had left the Catholic Church and converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church amidst the slow-motion train wreck of the Catholic sex abuse scandal. Dreher defies easy categorization as all great writers and thinkers do. For better or for worse, he thinks for himself. George Bernard Shaw famously said that progress depends on the unreasonable man who persists in trying to adapt the world to himself; Dreher’s monastic vision and willingness to speak unpopular truths puts him squarely in the Camp of the Unreasonables.
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