VIDEO
Premium access only. Login to watch this video or download audio.
Duration: 48:57 — Talk delivered on Saturday, October 14, 2023
Total Freedom, Total Servility
—Rod Dreher—
Contributing Editor for Touchstone, Author
Rod Dreher is a contributing editor to Touchstone. He is the author of Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, one of the fastest-selling Christian titles of 2020. He also wrote one of the best-selling books of 2018, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. He is an editor-at-large at The American Conservative, and has written and edited for Touchstone, the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate, among other publications.
subscription options
Order
Print/Online Subscription
Get six issues (one year) of Touchstone PLUS full online access including pdf downloads for only $39.95. That's only $3.34 per month!
Order
Online Only
Subscription
Get a one-year full-access subscription to the Touchstone online archives for only $19.95. That's only $1.66 per month!
bulk subscriptions
Order Touchstone subscriptions in bulk and save $10 per sub! Each subscription includes 6 issues of Touchstone plus full online access to touchstonemag.com—including archives, videos, and pdf downloads of recent issues for only $29.95 each! Great for churches or study groups.
Transactions will be processed on a secure server.
the conference
watch next
America After Christianity:
Neopaganism's Dark Enchantment
— John Daniel Davidson
St. Benedict: The Father of Us All
— Rod Dreher
Babylon's Furnace: Truth, Suffering & the Hard Road Ahead
— Rod Dreher
Becoming God's Spies: The Urgency of Christian Re-enchantment
— Rod Dreher
Touchstone is a Christian journal, conservative in doctrine and eclectic in content, with editors and readers from each of the three great divisions of Christendom—Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox.
The mission of the journal and its publisher, The Fellowship of St. James, is to provide a place where Christians of various backgrounds can speak with one another on the basis of shared belief in the fundamental doctrines of the faith as revealed in Holy Scripture and summarized in the ancient creeds of the Church.
The Fellowship of St. James is a 501(c)(3) non-denominational, non-partisan, organization that receives no government funding. All gifts are tax-deductible.
All content © The Fellowship of St. James — 2025. All rights reserved.
Returns, refunds, and privacy policy.