Quick Hitter: When Christianity Becomes About One Thing
Over the course of the last week, the Take-O-Sphere has been awash with reactions to Rod Dreher's long promised book on the Benedict Option, titled, well, The Benedict Option. Elizabeth Bruenig had a good review , that I talked about briefly here . Rachel Held Evans had some reasonable reactions on Twitter, provoking Dreher's now reflexive response of accusing her of preparing to become informant for some hypothetical anti-Christian Gestapo , a charge we recall he leveled on David Gushee some time ago . Damon Linker and the New York Times's David Brooks also wrote thoughtful responses, and it is those two pieces that I want to talk about for a bit. I have stated my objections to the entire enterprise of the Benedict Option in the past , and I stand by those objections . But what I think gets the least amount of attention in thinking about Dreher's project is how monomanically focused his vision of Christianity is. Linker's piece hits on the key fa...