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Even Now, Faithful Presence

October 8th, 2025 | 19 min read

By Jake Meador

This is a lightly edited manuscript of a talk I gave last week at Trinity Classical Academy in Omaha, NE.

Last Sunday night I opened up a chat app I sometimes use to stay in touch with friends and saw reports of a man armed with an AK-47 reportedly roaming about on campus at a prominent evangelical college in western Pennsylvania. A friend of mine who teaches there was included in the chat and several of us had asked him what was going on. Eventually we got the reply: Apparently there were a series of fraudulent calls placed to SWAT teams in the western Pennsylvania area that day.

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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.