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The Violence We Can’t Live Without

June 28th, 2022 | 4 min read

By Jake Meador

It is easier to be violent than it is to care.

That is the problem near the heart of so many of the maladies afflicting our nation today. Care costs us something. It demands something from us. If you choose to care, your life will be different than what you imagined, there will be obstructions to your own sense of liberty. You will have fewer choices.

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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.