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The Cramped Universality of Calvinistic Baptists

October 10th, 2024 | 14 min read

By Jake Meador

In the mid 2000s when I was trying to resolve a number of spiritual and theological questions, I had a relatively stable routine: Get home from school, grab my CD walkman, grab a CD that would have two new sermons burned on it, and go on a long walk around northeast Lincoln. The preachers I listened to?

Most commonly it was the two Mars Hill pastors: Mark Driscoll and Rob Bell. Sometimes John Piper made an appearance.

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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, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.