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The Peace of Christ be with You,
“Most of the people that show up at our church now want a therapist. I’m not a therapist.”
That’s what a pastor said to me recently as we talked about the challenges of ministry in the current context—post COVID, post Trump… post trust. There’s just not much left that we share as a people that we can count on when we enter into relationships with new people. All of that affects pastors and churches in a huge way, particularly as new people come into their churches in the aftermath of COVID era reshuffling.
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Jake Meador
Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.
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