I don’t know that I have much to say about conservative culture, but I do have something to say about conservative community. In the 90′s I used to be a subscriber of Utne Reader (a monthly roundup of best of the progressive alternative press!) and participated in the local “discussion salons” inspired by the magazine. The topics always gravitated to two things: first, organized religion sucks. Second, our country is utterly lacking in community. Eventually it all wore thin and I dropped out. A couple of years later, I got interested in Catholicism and joined the Church. What did I discover? Two things: First, organized religion doesn’t suck. Second: Our country is chock full of vibrant, active, loving, conservative community. In the churches! There is plenty of conservative culture to be found here, and at least in Catholicism, at as high a level of intellectual caliber as you could want.
