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The PR Style in Christian Media

March 13th, 2023 | 11 min read

By Jake Meador

By now the discourse surrounding Joshua Ryan Butler’s book excerpt published at the Gospel Coalition has in some ways exhausted itself. To be sure, Butler’s intentions for the text — to highlight and commend the beauty of the Christian sex ethic — is fairly clear, as is his indebtedness to a certain mystical stream in Christian theology. They are, indeed, sufficiently clear to make the accusation that his is an abuse apologia absurd.

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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.