Building the Benedict Option: A Guide to Gathering Two or Three Together in His Name by Leah Libresco, 163 pagesRod Dreher's The Benedict Option was the most important religious book published in 2017, provoking a continuing debate over the author's diagnosis of cultural collapse and the necessity for religious believers to develop intentional lives and organized communities of faith. Central to these debates have been two questions. If the Benedict Option is not - as Dreher insists it is not - an abandonment of the world in favor of isolated, cloistered communities, what is it? And what concrete steps can be taken to begin building such communities?
Leah Libresco, who was among those profiled in The Benedict Option, answers both of these questions with a combination of genuine charity and intelligence which seems sadly out of fashion in the Church today. In Building the Benedict Option she offers eminently practical advice to encourage and assist Christians in offering themselves to each other, beginning from a foundation of humility and hope.
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