Elizabeth Oldfield speaks with writer and editor Rod Dreher. 30/10/2024

Rod Dreher and Elizabeth Oldfield delve into Rod’s journalism of the Catholic sex abuse scandal, converting to Eastern Orthodoxy, his views on immigration and Donald Trump and supernatural experiences.

Chapters

00:00 What is Sacred to you? Rod Dreher answers 

06:28 Family, Place, and the Weight of Expectations 

10:16 Moral Foundations and Personal Crisis 

17:54 The Benedict Option: A Call to Intentional Living 

26:25 The Journey to Orthodoxy and the Search for Transcendence 

30:39 Living in Wonder: Rediscovering the Enchanted World 

33:03 The Unseen Battle: Spiritual Awareness 

36:44 Encounters with the Divine: Transformative Stories 

39:41 Spiritual climate 

43:03 Conservative politics, Trump and faith 

48:42 The willingness to suffer for your beliefs

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