Given a year has passed since the New York publication of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option, in March 2017, and the sparking of a drawn-out controversy over it within the Anglo-Atlantic world, there is surely nothing more to say about Dreher’s TBO.

On the contrary, given the Americo-centric focus of the debate, I reckon there’s still much to glean from The Benedict Option phenomenon and some of it, however improbable it might seem, is of direct relevance to Australia.