Rod Dreher

Raymond "Rod" Dreher (1967-) is an American conservative Christian writer, editor, and commentator. He is most well known for his books The Benedict Option and Live Not By Lies.


Because it prescribes government of the people, liberal democracy can be only as strong as the people who live under it.

Churches...that are nothing more than a loosely bound assembly of individuals committed to finding their own 'truth,' are no longer the church in any meaningful sense, because there is no shared belief.

It was the countercultural force of Christian sexuality that overturned the pagan world's dehumanizing practices.

No Reformer believed in private interpretation of Scripture, but they had no clear way to discern whose interpretation was the correct one. [They] quickly discovered that casting off Rome's authority solved one problem but created another.

Part of the change we have to make is accepting that in the years to come, faithful Christians may have to choose between being a good American and being a good Christian.

The church, a community that authoritatively teaches and disciples its members, cannot withstand a revolution in which each member becomes, in effect, his own pope.

The West has lost the golden thread that binds us to God, Creation, and each other. Unless we find it again, there is no hope of halting our dissolution.

There can be no peace between Christianity and the Sexual Revolution, because they are radically opposed.

Watering down or burying biblical truth on sexuality for the sake of keeping Millennials won't work. Mainline Protestant churches have tried this strategy, and they remain in demographic collapse.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.