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Should Religious Conservatives Aspire to Notoriety?

May 15th, 2020 | 11 min read

By Jake Meador

As I was publishing my notes on the First Things story, Rod Dreher was typing up another set of thoughts on the matter. Attempting to keep up with Rod is a perilous thing, of course, especially when one has small children around and ought to be working on one’s book manuscript.

But his latest raises an important question: Should Christian writers aspire to notoriety, toward power, toward membership in the elite social circles of a nation or city?

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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, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.