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What Are Christians For?: An Invitation

February 22nd, 2022 | 5 min read

By Jake Meador

We are in a new era of preparation. The deconstructors have come and, mercifully, will soon be gone. The world we have known is at an end. This is true for the church, I think, as many of the defining movements of the 20th century western church are either dead or dying. It also seems likely to be true of our political regime. The sequence of events beginning in 2008 with the recession and leading up to COVID may mark the end of one world. The likely invasion of Ukraine by Russia may, indeed, cause us to enter a second 1930s-style decade, as the pieces for war and revolution slowly and perhaps irrevocably move into place.

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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.

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