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The Weekly, March 25, 2024
March 25, 2024
Hi all, I'm still making my way through Pomerantsev's How to Win an Information War. It's a fascinating book, but also a disturbing one. The book is largely...
The Weekly, March 18, 2024
March 19, 2024
Hi all, This week is a little late. The kids were on spring break last week, and Joie took them to a friend's for a couple days so I could work on my...
The Weekly, March 11, 2024
March 11, 2024
Hi all, Running something of a poll question this week: So we have this YouTube channel for Mere O. I've been uncertain what to do with it. I don't think it...
The Weekly, March 4, 2024
March 4, 2024
Hi all, I've been in DC for the past several days. I think this has been my favorite trip to the city so far. Wendell came with and we were able to stay with...
The Weekly, February 26, 2024
February 26, 2024
Hi all, I'm traveling this week and have three different presentations I'm doing in three days—Christian ministry in a therapeutic culture, staying human in...
The Weekly, February 19, 2024
February 19, 2024
Hi all, So last week the gents over at The Rest is History did a four part series on Britain in 1974. If you're a history nerd, you should absolutely listen...
The Weekly, February 12, 2024
February 12, 2024
Hi all, I've always been struck by an odd trajectory in the novels of Albert Camus. I started reading Camus in high school and have been coming back to him...
The Weekly, February 5, 2024
February 5, 2024
Hi all, Here's something of interest from Jeffrey Stout: So one of the defining problems of public life in a democratic system is "how do people who disagree...
The Weekly, January 29, 2024
January 30, 2024
Hi all, So I'll say more in the books section below, but I'm currently reading Jack London's The Call of the Wild. One thing that has stood out to me is how...
The Weekly, January 22, 2024
January 22, 2024
Hi all, We've had a handful of new folks join the list since the last issue, so I wanted to write something short about what this is and is not. Briefly,...
The Weekly, January 15, 2024
January 15, 2024
Hi all, "It's a radical discovery that prayer is a real thing." That's something Paul Kingsnorth said in his interview with Justin Brierly that you'll find...
The Weekly, December 27, 2023
December 28, 2023
Hi all, Abbreviated email this week due to the holiday (and my birthday--I'm 36 today). We've gone dark at Mere O this week as well. We would appreciate your...
The Weekly, December 19, 2023
December 19, 2023
Hi all, Questions for y'all this week: One Christmas beer? For me, it's got to be Kinkaider's Snow Beast. Kinkaider is a local brewery that started in Broken...
The Weekly, December 11, 2023
December 12, 2023
Hi all, Last week some friends and I were talking over group chat about the role "irony" plays in contemporary art. I'm not opposed to irony, to be clear; it...
The Weekly, December 4, 2023
December 4, 2023
Hi all, Let's start here. This is beautiful: Must-see holiday commercial from Chevrolet. This will be the best five minutes you spend today. Warning: Be...
The Weekly, November 27, 2023
November 27, 2023
Hi all, I'm going to keep this one relatively short: Last week was a short work week due to the holiday and I basically spent all of it trying to knock out...
The Weekly, November 20, 2023
November 20, 2023
Hi all, It's Thanksgiving week. So I wanted to share a couple things I'm grateful for this week. I also have a piece up on Mere O today about gratitude and...
The Weekly, November 13, 2023
November 13, 2023
Hi all, First things first, you have to watch this: I MEAN COME ON!!!! 🤯@LaneyChoboy, TAKE A BOW. #GBR pic.twitter.com/soFCaxRhAW— Nebraska Volleyball...
The Weekly, November 6, 2023: The Answer is Always Jesus
November 6, 2023
Hi all, One of the weird parts about my work is that because Mere O's audience includes journalists, academics, pastors, and non-profit leaders and because...
The Weekly, October 30, 2023
October 30, 2023
Hi all, I'm trying something different this week, which is that I didn't post on Twitter except for Mere O content and otherwise have saved all the stuff I...
The Weekly October 23, 2023
October 23, 2023
Hi all, This week was a quicker turnaround on the newsletter than will be typical—last week's was late and this week I'm trying to get back to having these...
The Weekly (Occasionally...) October 19, 2023
October 19, 2023
Hi everyone, It's been a minute. I'm still learning to get on a schedule with this and how to fit it in with (vague handwavey gestures in the direction of...
The Weekly, August 28
August 28, 2023
Hi all, Apologies for missing last week's update. There were... events. About which I have nothing more to say. On to the update: I was talking with a friend...
The Weekly: August 14, 2023
August 14, 2023
It's an odd coincidence that two of my favorite poets have both written poems likening their work to their children: Anne Bradstreet and Sylvia Plath....
The Weekly
August 7, 2023
Hi everyone, I've received a number of new email signups since my piece in The Atlantic so I thought now might be a good time to try, once again, to reboot...
Meador News April 2022
April 8, 2022
Well, I didn't make the first Friday. But here we are. The Work Print #2 is scheduled to ship out on Tuesday. So that one is done and dusted and we're onto...
Meador News March 2022
March 8, 2022
Hey y'all, I've decided I'm going to do these on a monthly basis simply because I don't think there's much need for anything more regular than that. I may...
The Newsletter's Future
March 4, 2022
Hey y'all, It's been two years since I sent anything to this list. I'm planning to revive it again, but more in the style of Edith Schaeffer's old family...
Notes from a Small Place #10
July 10, 2019
Hey all, Here is the latest. First, I would appreciate your prayers today as I have three different interviews scheduled to promote Common Good. The first is...
In Search of the Common Good Update and Other News
July 2, 2019
Hey all, So we are one week into the launch of In Search of the Common Good. If you have already bought it, thank you! If you haven't, you can find it on...
Book Launch Week
June 24, 2019
Hey all, So this week is the launch for In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World. You can order the book at all the usual online...
Notes from a Small Place #7: The Peace
May 20, 2019
Hey all, we're just going to dive straight in today because there's a lot of ground I'm going to try to cover. Last time we defined "liberalism" and "common...
Notes from a Small Place Issue #6
May 6, 2019
Hey all, First, if the newsletter looks a bit different it's because I have migrated over to a new email client called ButtonDown. The content will be the...
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