Rod Dreher Read My Blog

Traffic here is quite heavy today. The reason is that Rod Dreher, the Crunchy Con himself, read my post [Rod Dreher hits the WaPo] that "worried that [his] temptation to Orthodoxy is indicative of a consumerist mentality toward religion -- choosing what feels right, as opposed to what's true" and commented on it here: Blogosphere on Style section.

Answering me, Mr. Dreher says:

A great question -- the question in front of me, actually -- and I'm struggling not only to determine what is true doctrinally, but how to renew my Catholicism if I should conclude, after my discernment, that Catholicism is true. It's a Kierkegaardian dilemma -- what good is truth if it is not subjective, by which I mean able to be appropriated and incarnated in the life of a subject? What does one do if one recognizes that (say) Catholicism is true, but for whatever reason it remains only a cerebral thing, and one has genuine trouble revivifying it in one's life?

I cannot but empathize with his explanation that he is suffering through a Kierkegaardian dilemma. May God sustain him through his Dark Night of the Soul. I pray that he doesn't jump ship from the Barque of Peter, and pray also that he follows the dictates of his conscience.

Here's a link to Mr. Dreher's book: Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (or at least the Republican Party).