According to Daniel French there is an increasingly \u201cunderground\u201d aspect to conservative Christian life in the UK \u2014 believers have woken up to the fact that the culture is against them, and in many cases even traditional religious leaders too.<\/p>\n
Another of his UK allies, Dr James Orr, believes that Rod Dreher is destined to have a significant impact on our conservatism. \u201cHis insights are proving more salient with every week that passes, not only for Christians but for all those who are beginning to feel the consequences of rejecting the West\u2019s Christian inheritance.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs hyper-progressivism continues to colonise the UK public square with neuralgic imports from the US culture wars, I predict that more and more people in the UK will start to take Dreher\u2019s jeremiads seriously and pay attention to his constructive proposals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether or not James Orr is right, Dreher is interesting not just for who he is, but for what he represents. He stands at a newly emergent nexus of traditional European conservatism, English realism, and American romanticism and religiosity. With an increasingly sterile politics, caught between technocratic centrism and the hollow battles of the culture wars, there\u2019s a desperate need for new ideas, and fresh approaches. This is a man worth listening to. <\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n My first print piece for @TheCriticMag<\/a> – I spoke to @roddreher<\/a> and discovered a paradoxical and complex conservatism, deeply marked by the problem we all face in the modern age: the search for meaning, rootedness and community in a world that rejects them. https:\/\/t.co\/7djuyI0rYP<\/a><\/p>\n — Sebastian Milbank 🥀🇬🇧🏴 (@JSMilbank) April 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n