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Staying Human in the Fourth Republic

March 7th, 2024 | 8 min read

By Jake Meador

These are my notes from a recent talk I gave at a Faith and Law gathering in Washington.

Stay away from anything that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
There are only sacred places and desecrated places.
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Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.

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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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