Guestsplaining: Rod Dreher on the Occult, UFO's and the Hidden World

Godsplaining

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On this captivating episode of Guestsplaining, Fr. Gregory welcomes author Rod Dreher to discuss his recent publications, the Occult, demons and stories of exorcisms, and other themes of "The Hidden World." What really is a UFO? What are demons actually capable of? Is New Atheism dead? This and so much more on this week's episode of Guestsplaining. Rod Dreher's books can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Rod-Dreher/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3ARod%2BDreher For info on our upcoming retreats and events, see here: https://godsplaining.org/events-2/ Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our NEW merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the Friars St. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392 Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/ Connect on Social Media Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/ Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.org To support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org

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0:00.0	This is Father Gregory Pine, and welcome to Godsplining.
0:09.4	Thanks to all those who support us.
0:11.1	If you enjoy the show, please consider making a monthly donation on Patreon.
0:14.6	Be sure to like and subscribe to Godsplending wherever you listen to your podcasts.
0:18.7	We are delighted to welcome for this episode of guest
0:22.1	Blending One, Rod Dreher. Thanks so much for joining us. It's great to be here. I'm always
0:27.0	happiest when I'm with metaphysical realist, just so you know. There you go. Well, in our
0:34.1	moderate commitment to the real order, we salute you. Now, many folks will know you
0:39.0	probably best from the Benedict option, which I guess is published 2017, so seven years ago,
0:44.1	which is wild to think, or through various other online and print media to which you make
0:49.2	generous contributions. But for those who don't know you, could you just say a word of
0:53.0	introduction?
0:54.6	Sure.
0:56.7	Well, my name is Rod Dreher.
1:00.0	I am an American, but I happen to live in Budapest, Hungary.
1:01.6	That's where I'm coming to you from today.
1:04.6	And I'm a writer and a journalist.
1:12.2	I used to write for the American conservative, and I'm at the European Conservative. I did write the Benedict Option, which is probably my best known book,
1:19.5	but by far my best-selling book was called Live Not by Lies. It came out in 2020, right in the middle of COVID. And it's a book that talks about the people who came to the United States
1:25.5	and to the West in general from the Soviet
1:27.8	block escaping communism and how they in recent times they've come to see some of the
1:34.3	elements of what they left behind totalitarianism rising in a different form in our society.
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