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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. He is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied English and History. He lives in Lincoln, NE with his wife Joie, their daughter Davy Joy, and sons Wendell, Austin, and Ambrose. Jake's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, Christianity Today, Fare Forward, the University Bookman, Books & Culture, First Things, National Review, Front Porch Republic, and The Run of Play and he has written or contributed to several books, including "In Search of the Common Good," "What Are Christians For?" (both with InterVarsity Press), "A Protestant Christendom?" (with Davenant Press), and "Telling the Stories Right" (with the Front Porch Republic Press).

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