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Duration: 49:30 — Talk delivered on Saturday, October 12, 2019

St. Benedict: The Father of Us All

—Rod Dreher—
Senior Editor at The American Conservative

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Rod Dreher is a contributing editor to Touchstone. He is a senior editor and blogger at the American Conservative and author of How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, and Live Not by Lies: A Survival Manual for Christian Dissidents. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. His commentary has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and elsewhere. He is Eastern Orthodox and lives with his wife, Julie, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They have three children.


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