Rod Dreher

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rod Dreher
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Feb 14, 1967(1967-02-14)
Age	57
Birthplace	Baton Rouge
Country	United States
Birth City	Louisiana
Horoscope	Aquarius

Rod Dreher Biography

Rod Dreher is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on February 14, 1967 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. Dreher was born in Baton Rouge on February 14, 1967. His father Ray Oliver Dreher gave him his name. He was born in St. Francisville, where he was raised. In 1989, he graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Dreher was a constant critic of Islam’s role in international affairs. However, he has changed his opinion on the effectiveness of foreign military intervention. Dreher published many articles critical of Islam after the September 11 attacks. One article in which he praised Oriana Fallaci, an anti- Islamic writer from Italy, said that the book The Rage and the Pride contained “much truth” that would “shock awake a noble civilisation hypnotized with multiculturalist mumbo jumbo”. He also mentioned that the book had “few unsightly parts”. Canadian scholar Sherene Rasack described Fallaci’s book as showing “extremely blatant racist” behavior. Canadian scholar Sherene Razack described Fallaci’s book as showing “extremely blatant racism” in 2002. He was critical about the April 2017 US President Donald Trump’s order to launch missile strikes against Syria.

Dreher has been married since 1997 to Julie Harris Dreher, and is the father of three children. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Raised a Methodist, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1993, and subsequently wrote widely in the Catholic press. Covering the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal, starting in 2001, led him to question his Catholicism, and on October 12, 2006, he announced his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy. At the time, Dreher had argued that the scandal was not so much a “pedophile problem”, but that the “sexual abuse of minors is facilitated by a secret, powerful network of gay priests”, referred to as the “Lavender Mafia”.

In the early 2010s Dreher involved himself in a controversy surrounding Metropolitan Jonah, then serving as the primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), who had encountered resistance in his attempts to involve the OCA more heavily in political issues such as abortion and gay marriage. Dreher started an anonymous website called OCA Truth, which published alleged private information about an opponent in the controversy. Dreher’s connection with the website was exposed when emails connected to the website were leaked. Dreher later described his involvement in the affair as “foolish”.

Dreher is an opponent of large-scale immigration to Europe and the United States. He has also defended Western Civilization and condemned identity politics related to race. His writings about race and immigration have been the subject of numerous controversies. Dreher published an article mocking funeral celebrations for Aaliyah, an African-American singer. He later reported receiving threats phone calls from “black accents”. Following the August 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, Dreher was criticised for saying that left-wing identification politics had “summed the demonics” of white nationalism and for suggesting a equivalence between white supremacism and left-wing ideology politics. Dreher was criticized for comparing African migration to Europe to a “barbarian invasion” in June 2018. Dreher was also criticized for dedicating a blog post in June 2018 to reproducing a complaint from a reader that white liberals wanted to “give away their country to non- whites” and warning of a race war. Dreher praised the comments of the reader, but he did not endorse them. He described them as intelligent and debateable. Dreher was compared with the German Christians of 1930s when he wrote about a Central American caravan of migrants, “If everyone is your neighbor then nobody is,” and asked, “How far would you go to defend our sovereignty from invaders who want not to conquer but to settle here?” Dreher strongly condemned the actions of the Christchurch mosque shooter and other aspects of his ideology. However, Dreher also stated that he had “legitimate, real concerns” about the “declining number of ethnic Europeans in Western countries.” This comment was criticized by many scholars who questioned the University of Wollongong Ramsay Center for Western Civilization for inviting Dreher to speak. Dreher stated that his concern about immigration is motivated by sympathy for the poor, who he believes are most adversely affected, and a desire to preserve Western cultural traditions.

Rod Dreher Net Worth

Rod Dreher is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rod Dreher 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

American writer and editor Ray Oliver Dreher was born 1967. He is also known as Rod Dreher. He is the senior editor and blogger for The American Conservative. He is also the author of many books, including How Dante Can Save Your Life (and The Benedict Option). He has published articles on religion, culture, and politics in National Review, National Review Online, Touchstone and Men’s Health as well as other publications such as The Weekly Standard and The Wall Street Journal.

Dreher has written extensively on what he calls “the Benedict Option”. This is the idea that Christians who wish to keep their faith should segregate from “post-Obergefell society,” which he considers to be a drifting away from traditional Christian values, especially those regarding sex and marriage. Dreher recommends that Christians work to create intentional communities such as Trinity Presbyterian Church, the Bruderhof or the School for Conversion. Alasdair McIntyre’s 1981 work After Virtue inspired the phrase “Benedict Option”. It refers to the 6th-century monk Benedict of Nursia. The 2017 publication of Dreher’s book The Benedict Option was well-respected in the secular and religious media. Dreher received profiles in The Washington Post as well as the New Yorker.

Dreher began his career as a television critic for The Washington Times, and later worked as chief film critic for the New York Post and editor for the National Review. In 2002, Dreher wrote an essay that explored a subcategory of American conservatism he defined as “granola conservatism”, whose adherents he described as “crunchy cons.” He defined these people as traditionalist conservatives who believed in environmental conservation, frugal living, and the preservation of traditional family values, while also expressing skepticism towards aspects of free-market capitalism. He portrayed “crunchy cons” as being generally religious (typically traditionalist Roman Catholics, conservative Protestants, or Eastern Orthodox). Four years later, Dreher published a book expanding on the themes of this manifesto, 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).

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Dreher has been associated with a recent political movement that has been alternatively labelled “post-liberalism”, “anti-liberalism”, “national conservatism”, or “the new nationalism”. The movement has been defined in connection with a manifesto entitled “Against the Dead Consensus”, published in First Things in March 2019, which Dreher was a signatory to, and which argues that the “pre-Trump conservative consensus” “failed to retard, much less reverse, the eclipse of permanent truths, family stability, [and] communal solidarity”, and “too often bowed to a poisonous and censorious multiculturalism”; the manifesto argues for a conservatism of national, communal, and familial solidarity. Critics of the movement have compared its proponents to the intellectual defenders of fascism in the 1930s, while those sympathetic to the movement have argued that “there is nothing shameful about love of one’s own, the impulse that links individual self-regard and love of family to affection for one’s own neighborhood, town or city, state, and political community as a whole (the nation).”

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Top Facts about Rod Dreher

1. Rod Dreher is an American journalist and author.
2. He was born on February 14, 1967 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
3. Dreher has written for several publications including The American Conservative and National Review.
4. He is known for his conservative views on politics and religion.
5. In 2017, he published the book “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.”
6. Dreher has been criticized by some for his views on LGBTQ+ rights and same-sex marriage.
7. He currently resides in Baton Rouge with his wife and children.
8. Dreher converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in 2006 after being raised as a Methodist.
9. He has also worked as a senior editor at The American Conservative magazine.
10. Dreher’s writing often focuses on cultural issues and the decline of traditional values in society.

Why did Rod Dreher leave the Catholic Church?

Covering the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal, starting in 2001, led him to question his Catholicism, and on October 12, 2006, he announced his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy.

How old is Rod Dreher?

55 years (February 14, 1967)

Why is it called the Benedict option?

The Benedict Option’s title is taken from a quote by Alasdair MacIntyre in his book After Virtue in which he writes, “If the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without hope … We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St.

Who is Steve skojec?

Steve Skojec is the Founding Publisher and Executive Director of OnePeterFive.com , a journal of Catholic commentary on news, tradition, and culture.

How is Dante?

Inspiring, revelatory, and packed with penetrating spiritual, moral, and psychological insights, How Dante Can Save Your Life is a book for people, both religious and secular, who find themselves searching for meaning and healing. Dante told his patron that he wrote his poem to bring readers from misery to happiness.