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Accumulated Absences

August 23rd, 2024 | 5 min read

By Jake Meador

When the young Jayber Crow first spots a man who turns out to be Burley Coulter floating on a small boat in a flooded river, he doesn't know what he wants. He knows he's sick at heart; he knows there is some absence in his life, but he has not yet learned how to name it.

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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, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.