What Happens When the ‘Moral Majority’ Becomes a Minority?
Dreher asks whether Christians ought to emulate the 5th-century Roman saint, and undertake “communal withdrawal from the mainstream, for the sake of sheltering one’s faith and family from corrosive modernity and cultivating a more traditional way of life?”
.. Southern Baptists—and many other Protestant, evangelical Christians—view the Benedict Option as an unappealing form of surrender, a disobedience of Jesus’s command to “go and make disciples of all nations.” A common refrain among culturally engaged Christians is the call to be “counter-cultural,” which most often involves taking stances they understand to be politically unpopular but indispensable to the practice of the faith. This case that the Benedict Option is actually anti-Biblical could be its kiss of death within these communities.