In Conversation with Saint Benedict by Terrence G. Kardong, renowned Benedictine scholar Terrence Kardong considers the interface between the Rule of Benedict and contemporary culture.
In several of the chapters of Conversation with Saint Benedict by Terrence G. Kardong, the author considers multiple aspects of modern culture that he considers worrisome, and he tries to look at them in the light of the Rule.
In other chapters, he takes up specific aspects of the Rule itself that he finds difficult to deal with. Conversation with Saint Benedict by Terrence G. Kardong, then, is a kind of dialectic, which does not shrink from criticizing both our culture and Benedict's own ideas.