Although I have not yet read,”The Benedict Option,” by Rod Dreher, I found this review very noteworthy. At present, I have at least two books to read before going forward with Mr Dreher’s work. I think Rev Lane’s commentary is excellent. I wish this book was written twenty years ago, and furthermore, I believe that too few American pastors have given his insights due credit. The reality is that the Western churches allowed heresy and apostasy, and legions of false teachers, to take over the narrative in the culture wars, and sadly, in the moral and spiritual as well. The churches allowed festering tumors to grow into a mass, instead of carrying on the task of exposing the truth, albeit the unpopular truth, and now surgical correction is not forthcoming, unless it is by the hand of God. We should remember there is nothing new or unique about the present Post Christian mindset we see today. In many respects, it has been a trial, and a testing, where the Lord purges His people and the result is a pruning of branches, both churches and people, and however small the result, how barren the tree, it will be the strength of the vine (Christ) which holds the remaining remnant. We see these depressing changes in our society, and yet we cannot be surprised or anxious, but rather we should view them soberly and humbly. God is still working. Pruning the branches is something He does. Let us hope we ourselves remain faithful during this painful process. Soli Deo Gloria