Jake Meador – In Search of the Common Good

2025-08-27

Why is common life in our society in decline? Brent talks with Jake Meador about a new paperback edition of his IVP book ‘In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World’. Jake is vice president of the Davenant Institute and the editor in chief of Mere Orthodoxy. (0:40) How has the world changed? (2:40) America in decline? (4:15) The decline of the church; (12:00) How has existentialism shaped the modern West? (17:40) Alienation from work; (19:00) A.I.; (24:55) The loss of comm...

Why is common life in our society in decline?

Brent talks with Jake Meador about a new paperback edition of his IVP book ‘In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World’.

Jake is vice president of the Davenant Institute and the editor in chief of Mere Orthodoxy.

(0:40) How has the world changed?
(2:40) America in decline?
(4:15) The decline of the church;
(12:00) How has existentialism shaped the modern West?
(17:40) Alienation from work;
(19:00) A.I.;
(24:55) The loss of community.

Links mentioned in this episode:

jakemeador.com

www.ivpress.com/in-search-of-the-common-good

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