Fellowship Meetings
Every week, we meet to discuss writings from the Western tradition and canon, including debate and discussion on how they apply to our current context. Here are the writings in our lineup:
The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Live Not By Lies - Rod Dreher
The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis
Other works we will have discussions on include:
The City of God by Augustine of Hippo
The Rule of Saint Benedict by St. Benedict of Nursia
Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
The Everlasting Man and What’s Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton
Reason, Faith and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West by Andrew Wilson
The War on the West by Douglas Murray
What Exactly is the West? | A Conversation About Our Roots by the ThinkingWest YouTube channel
Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on Whether Western Civilization Is About To Collapse (YouTube video)
Understanding Western Civilization. (YouTube video by Whatifalthis)
We will also discuss works that critique the very idea of preserving the West or that question its viability:
The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth
Against Christian Civilization by Paul Kingsnorth (a 2024 Erasmus lecture on YouTube)
Western Civilization Is Already Dead (a YouTube discussion between Jonathan Pageau and Paul Kingsnorth)
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly--and the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo