How to be an Evangelical Influencer (Apparently)

March 13th, 2023 | 1 min read

Endorse a book you didn’t actually read.
Capitulate to a Twitter mob demanding you retract your endorsement for the book that you didn’t actually read.
Call the book’s argument, which is almost identical to things you’ve said in your own books, “problematic” and “dangerous.”
Apologize for “causing harm” by endorsing a book you never actually read.
Wait two weeks.
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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, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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