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The End of Christendom: Notes on the Burning of Notre Dame

April 15th, 2019 | 7 min read

By Jake Meador

Rod Dreher is fond of quoting a line from Benedict XVI who—forgive my paraphrasing—has said that the church’s two most powerful evangelistic tools are her art and her saints.

Though I have never been fully outside the church, even during my angriest times I still attended regularly and would have called myself a Christian, I’ve felt the weight of that appeal.

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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.