What is Wrong With the Media? Veteran Journalist, Author Discusses Why Mass Media Is To Blame For Life’s Ills at Belmont Abbey College’s Bradley Institute
BELMONT, NC --- The press frequently takes the blame for much of what people say is wrong with society.
But have they ushered in a new era of “darkness”?
Journalist and author Rod Dreher seems to think so. Dreher explains in detail in his new book, Crunchy Cons, that we have entered into a crucial time of cultural darkness and fragmentation and are simply seeking a light of faith and reason to guide us. He calls it, “a new Benedict.”
Dreher will present, "Benedict, the Domestic Monastery, and Media Barbarians of the Dark Ages," for The Bradley Institute’s guest lecture series on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 7:30 PM in the Student Commons at Belmont Abbey College. Admission is free and the event is open to the public.
Reservations are required, call 704.829.7231 or register online at www.bradleyinstitute.org.
Dreher, the 2006 Pearl Dixon Bal this Lecturer, argues that if families are going to protect themselves and their children from those in the media clamoring to separate them from their values, they need to think of the home as a domestic monastery, and wall off the gates through which the barbarians come.
A veteran television and film critic for the last 16 years, Dreher places the burden of guilt on mass media as the driving force and believes the only way families will survive is by adopting an attitude of intentional and intelligent counter-cultural resistance in the home.
Dreher is assistant editorial page editor of The Dallas Morning News and author of Crunchy Cons, a book that reports on how counter-cultural conservatives live and thrive outside the consumerist mainstream. He is a contributing editor to The National Review and Touchstone magazines, and formerly the chief film critic for The New York Post. A frequent guest on numerous television news programs, he has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, Crisis, and a several other publications.
Its director, Dr. Robert A. Preston, founded the Bradley Institute for the Study of Christian Culture at Belmont Abbey College in 1996. Dr. Preston had served Belmont Abbey College as its 13th president for six years until his retirement in 2001.
The Bradley Institute provides opportunities for business executives, career professionals and clergy to examine relevant ethical, theological and philosophical topics within the context of their modern lives. Program topics range from business, legal and medical ethics to history and philosophy.
The Institute is named for The Reverend John P. Bradley, former president of Belmont Abbey College and former CEO and chairman of the board of Good Will Publishers of Charlotte, North Carolina. The Bradley Institute, in cooperation with the Ingersoll Foundation, presents the annual Ingersoll Prize.
Ranked one of the best liberal arts colleges in the South by U.S. News and World Report, Belmont Abbey College celebrates excellence and virtue steeped in its 128 year Catholic Benedictine heritage. It is home to students from over 34 states and 17 countries and welcomes everyone from any background or tradition committed to this vision of excellence and virtue. The campus consists of the College, the Monastery and the Abbey Basilica, which can be found on its sprawling 650 acres of picturesque landscape.
Just minutes from Charlotte, NC, the nation’s second largest banking center, Belmont Abbey College offers students numerous internship opportunities and career placement.
The College believes in development of the whole person – mind, body and spirit. By offering a wide array of clubs and activities including Division II athletics, theatre, publications, and study abroad, Belmont Abbey College invests in the personal growth of its students.
Founded in 1876, the College celebrates its heritage and is inspired by the Benedictine monastic tradition. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the College and Abbey Basilica greet thousands of visitors each year.
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