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What Do We Have That's Good?

May 9th, 2024 | 5 min read

By Jake Meador

About 1/3 of the way through the film Apollo 13 Ed Harris, playing the role of Mission Control Flight Director Gene Kranz, advises his staff on how best to help the Apollo astronauts currently stranded in space and with only a very small chance of making it home. He says they need to work the problem, not make things worse with guesses, and then think in terms of "status." Then he asks, "what do we have on the spacecraft that's good?"

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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.