âThe culture war is largely over, and we lost,â writes Rod Dreher in his new book, Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. The book, which takes its name from a 1974 essay by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, picks up, in many ways, where Dreherâs 2017 book, The Benedict Option, left off.
If The Benedict Option was about how to preserve and pass down a way of life that is in direct opposition to the prevailing culture, Live Not By Lies addresses what to do when that culture doesnât merely ignore or marginalize you, but comes for you â with the goal of either making you conform or, in todayâs parlance, canceling you.
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