**Rod Dreher *has been an editorial writer and columnist for the Dallas Morning News , a film critic for the New York Post, and currently writes for the American Conservative. He currently lives in St. Francisville, Louisiana with his wife Julie and his three children. The Little Way of Ruthie Lemin...

**Rod Dreher *has been an editorial writer and columnist for the Dallas Morning News , a film critic for the New York Post, and currently writes for the American Conservative. He currently lives in St. Francisville, Louisiana with his wife Julie and his three children. The Little Way of Ruthie Leming is his second book; his first was * Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (or At Least the Republican Party).