I Want to be a Burden

December 15th, 2016 | 2 min read

This excerpt from Gilbert Meilaender is gold:

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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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I Want to be a Burden

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