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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.
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Sheldon and Davy Vanauken were able to come to Christianity precisely because they knew what it would cost them.
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Tim Gloege's book "Guaranteed Pure" is an essential study of evangelical history and a penetrating analysis of how business norms shaped the movement.
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Far from being his salvation, Rodrigues decision to apostatize is actually a further confirmation of the great sin that plagues him throughout Endo's book.
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Dr. Coyle Neal argues that Leithart's new book suffers from a bad understanding of church history and deficient view of the cross.
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The modern west may not be defined by traditional religion in the way it once was. But our defining institutions still have strongly religious elements.
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In which Calvin explains the connection between a Christian's happiness and their capacity for sacrifice and service.
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Those who accuse Wendell Berry of idealizing the past simply aren't reading him closely enough.
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Lewis, writing as Screwtape, on the question of how one uses “their” time:
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According to Sertillanges, the good and the true flourish in the same soil and so they cannot be ultimately separated.
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CSL in Screwtape writing about the relationship between vice and obsession with the future:
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Sertillanges counsels those aspiring scholars who, due to other obligations, think they lack the time to do real scholarship.
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A. D. Sertillanges offers a devastating rebuke of much of the work done by today's "public intellectuals."
