Some Things Shouldn't Be Made Into a Joke

April 23rd, 2026 | 13 min read

Eventually we are going to get to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's third commandment violation from a 'prayer' he delivered at a worship service in the Pentagon last 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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Some Things Shouldn't Be Made Into a Joke

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