(Short explanatory note: My dad has been in the ICU with life-threatening injuries for over two weeks now due to medical issues which you can read about in more detail here. If you want to know more about how he’s doing, you can follow our family blog right here.)
I’ve been thinking a bit more about my dad today because two days ago when I went out to start one of our cars, it was dead. I didn’t have time to deal with it then but yesterday was able to deal with it—just needed a new battery, so an easy enough thing to fix.
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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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