Becoming the Given: Christian Belonging After the Therapeutic

September 18th, 2025 | 23 min read

This is a lightly edited transcript of my remarks given at the Lewis House at the University of Kentucky earlier this week.

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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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Becoming the Given: Christian Belonging After the Therapeutic

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