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And the most permanent thing of all is God. At the heart of Mr. Dreher\u2019s family-centered crunchy conservatism is an unwavering commitment to religious faith. And not just any religious faith but rigorous, old-fashioned orthodoxy. Only a firm grounding in religious commitment, he believes, can sustain crunchy conservatives in their struggle against the radical individualism and materialism he decries. Nearly all the crunchy cons he interviews are devoutly Christian or orthodox Jewish believers who are deliberately ordering their lives toward the ultimate end of \u201cserving God, not the self\u201d \u2014 often at considerable financial sacrifice.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"