The Weekly, December 9, 2024

December 9, 2024

our family, December 2024 Hi all, This will be something of a Christmas letter, though it does include the usual links and books as well. A couple months ago...

The Weekly, November 18, 2024

November 18, 2024

Hi all, Apologies for going dark for a few weeks. Various projects are keeping me busy as we ramp up toward the end of year for Mere O. The good news is that...

The Weekly, October 28, 2024

October 28, 2024

Hi all, I’ve got a new piece up at Plough on tolerance as a virtue. Key grafs: Rather than treating tolerance as a necessary evil, we can recognize tolerance...

The Weekly, October 23, 2024

October 23, 2024

Hi all, Here in Lincoln our family has joined up with a church plant that is happening in the local PCA community. I wrote indirectly about it in my recent...

The Weekly, October 7, 2024

October 7, 2024

Hi all, I’m getting this back up and running now after an unplanned hiatus due to a solid month of various people in our family being sick. There were a few...

The Weekly, September 16, 2024

September 16, 2024

Hi all, As I read Postman I’ve been struck by an observation he makes that one of the basic human problems we all face is managing the information that is...

The Weekly, August 28, 2024

August 28, 2024

Hi all, There is no shortage of reasons to despair in our moment, so this week I wanted to highlight something good in this short note: Hauerwas once said...

The Weekly, August 21, 2024

August 21, 2024

Hi all, I’ve been going back through old Wendell Berry essays for a variety of reasons. One thought that struck me, as I made my way through The Long-Legged...

The Weekly, August 12, 2024

August 12, 2024

Hi all, I don’t recall where I first came across this tip—it sounds like a Cal Newport thing, but I’m not sure—but lately at night after kids are down I’ve...

The Weekly, August 5, 2024

August 5, 2024

Hi all, Some time ago a friend of mine recalled one of the final conversations he had with Tim Keller. Keller was counseling him and a number of others on a...

The Weekly, July 24, 2024

July 24, 2024

Hi all, In a since deleted tweet, Zaid Jilani said, I think one of my more controversial opinions is that history should teach more about the bad guys'...

The Weekly, July 1, 2024

July 1, 2024

Hi all, Keeping it short today. I spent a good part of my Sabbath yesterday enjoying the Euros, particularly the England win. But I didn’t enjoy it nearly so...

The Weekly, June 24, 2024

June 24, 2024

Hi all, Last Wednesday was Juneteenth. If you are unfamiliar with the holiday or wish to learn more, I’d highly recommend watching this exceptional...

The Weekly, June 17, 2024

June 17, 2024

Hi all, When you edit professionally, you’ll always have the pieces that you just love and wish everyone would read. If I had to give a person one piece to...

The Weekly, June 10, 2024

June 10, 2024

Hi all, I hope you’ll read Tara Burton’s piece on Narnia linked below. She gets at something really important that is both utterly central for Tolkien and...

The Weekly, June 3, 2024

June 3, 2024

Hi all, The Mere O campaign is ongoing. We are now at 64% of our goal and are really pleased with the response so far. You can read an update here. If you...

The Weekly, April 22, 2024

May 3, 2024

Hi all, Apologies for going radio silent for awhile. We’ve had a stressful couple of weeks. Briefly, we found out a few weeks ago that two large gifts given...

The Weekly, April 15, 2024

April 15, 2024

Hi all, I'm writing after a somewhat comically full weekend: vans breaking down, kids birthday parties, kids soccer games, doing our taxes because I put it...

The Weekly, April 8, 2024

April 8, 2024

Hi all, Recently I read this piece from Justin Taylor about the missions ministry at Bethlehem Baptist Church over the course of John Piper and Tom Steller's...

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...