Five Rays Of Light

Jun 7, 2022 by Jill

by Rod Dreher:

I spoke once to a Christian friend who left his (very good) job because he could not in good conscience live with all the woke changes the new CEO was implementing. He told me there were enough conservative Christians in his senior-level department to have stopped most of this executive action, but almost none spoke out. They were too afraid to endanger their career prospects, and to be thought poorly of by liberal colleagues. As my friend put it, what they really worshiped was success and assimilation to Babylon.

When he said this, I thought of the anti-communist Christian dissident Kamila Bendova’s warning to me in her Prague apartment: that I should not count on our fellow Christians to make a risky stand for our beliefs. She told me (I tell this story in Live Not By Lies) that under communism, in a time when her late husband went to prison for his beliefs, most Czech Christians did what everybody else did: kept their heads down and their mouths shut, to avoid trouble.

That does not apply to five Christian players on the Tampa Bay Rays Major League Baseball team. Excerpts:

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