You Are Not Those Who Saw the Harbour Receding: On Matthew Lee Anderson's "Called Into Questions"

January 30th, 2024 | 8 min read

There's a story I heard John Hodges tell once during a lecture at the Rochester L'Abri conference. T. S. Eliot is doing a reading of some of his poems, Hodges told us, and afterwords a woman stands up during a time for q and a and says "could you explain what (poem) means?" Eliot looks at her, somewhat confused. He pauses. Then he says, "you mean you want me to say it worse?"

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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.

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