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Being Deep in History and Protestant

December 20th, 2021 | 2 min read

By Jake Meador

If your background is anything like mine, you both grew up in the church and grew up tremendously ignorant of much of what the church has said and thought throughout her history. I remember realizing with a shock while I was in high school that I had absolutely no idea what anyone born before 1850 believed about end times issues as well as much of the book of Daniel and basically the entire book of Revelation.

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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.