[Unedited] Rod Dreher with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 9 October 2008

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This unedited conversation with Rod Dreher comes from the second part of our series “The Faith Life of the Party.” A conservative columnist, Rod Dreher is an outspoken critic of mainstream Republican economic and environmental ideas and the conduct of the Iraq war, but he voted for George W. Bush twice. We explore the little-known story of religiously influenced impulses within the conservative movement that diverge from the Religious Right. The second part of our examination of religious energies below the surface of the 2008 presidential campaign. Conservative columnist Rod Dreher is an outspoken critic of mainstream Republican economic and environmental ideas and the conduct of the Iraq war, but he voted for George W. Bush twice. We explore the little-known story of religiously-influenced impulses within the conservative movement that diverge from the Religious Right. See more at onbeing.org/program/faith-life-party-part-ii-right/196

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0:00.0	This is Speaking of Fates Unheard Cuts. I'm Krista Tippett. You're listening to my
0:05.5	unedited conversation with Rod Dreyer, who's a columnist for the Dallas Morning News.
0:11.0	Since you're taking the time to listen to the entire interview, I'll give you the
0:14.4	logistical details. I spoke with Rod Dreyer via a broadcast-quality telephone connection
0:20.4	on September 12, 2008. I was in the studios of American public media in St. Paul, Minnesota.
0:27.4	Rod Dreyer was in a private recording studio in Dallas. This interview was included in
0:32.6	the second part of our series, The Faith Life of the Party, and it was originally podcast
0:38.3	on October 9, 2008. Download the MP3 of the Produced Show at speakingoffaith.org.
0:46.2	My producers and I actually got out of town and we had some production. We wanted to
0:51.7	do it at a Benedictine Abbey up the road and so we escaped. I didn't have anything to
0:57.6	do with the convention after that. I got out of there on Wednesday because I'd family
1:04.4	down Louisiana with Hurricane and I thought I might have to take some supplies. It turns
1:08.7	out I didn't have to do that, but I was actually glad to leave anyway because really all you
1:14.4	need to see by the convention you see on TV anyway.
1:16.6	Yeah, and now are you, you're in Dallas, right? That's right. Is Dallas at all on alert
1:23.2	about all these storms coming right now? Oh, yeah. In fact, walking into the studio here,
1:27.6	the winds are already picking up. Really? Yeah. I don't know if it's still going to be
1:32.0	hurricane strength by the time it gets into us, but it's supposed to start really raining
1:37.3	about 1 o'clock this morning and it's going to rain and blow all day tomorrow. Yeah.
1:41.5	My sister and her family are in Houston, so. Oh my gosh. Did they get out?
1:45.8	I haven't talked to her. I'm going to. I actually had really not been. It was only this
1:51.2	morning that I was really looking online and reading what what the city officials are
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