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Theology in the Raw

Culture, Politics, Technology, and Disagreement about Basic Facts: Jake Meador

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy and author of multiple books. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, the Dispatch, Comment, Christianity Today, and elsewhere. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and family. Our conversation is wide ranging, from culture, to history, to politics, to technology. I found Jake to be both delightful and thoughtful, especially when it comes to his analysis of culture and technology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello,

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I guess today is the one and only Jake Meeder,

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who is the editor-in-chief of Muir Orthodoxy

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and the author of multiple books.

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His writing has appeared in many different places

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like The Atlantic, Common common wheel first things the dispatch

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comment Christianity today and elsewhere Jake lives with his family his wife and

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four kids in Lincoln Nebraska our conversation is wide-ranging. Okay, this is one of those really free-flowing

0:25.6

conversations. I invited Jake to come on and he's kind of a renaissance nightmare, he like just knows lots of stuff

0:31.6

about lots of different things and so I told him ahead of time I said, hey, I just knows lots of stuff about lots of different things.

0:33.0

And so I told him ahead of time, I said, hey, I just want to come on and have a conversation.

0:35.8

Let's just see where the conversation goes.

0:37.4

And it goes in many different directions.

0:39.7

And I learned a ton.

0:40.6

So we talk about culture history politics technology how all those

0:45.1

relate and many other things and I found Jake to be both delightful and

0:48.5

thoughtful especially when it comes to his like analysis of culture and technology. So really

0:54.0

excited about the conversation please welcome to the show the one or only Jake

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here. All right. Jekmeeter, welcome to theology and Ra. How are you doing this morning?

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I'm doing well.

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You look very, you look very colorful. What did you say that was that you're wearing?

1:16.7

It's called it Deschiki. It's a shirt that it originated in Western Africa and then in the years after African country started moving into

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