Browse Author Jake Meiss

Pride and Equality

Can equality exist in a society that encourages pride? June is pride month—a celebration which began as “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month,” quickly became “LGBT pride month”, and is now “LGBTQ+ month” as more and more identities have been included over the years. It’s part of a wider movement that is said to be fighting […]

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Segregation and Exclusion

Last week Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot sent a letter to local media outlets offering sit-down interviews exclusively to black and brown journalists. “By now, you may have heard the news that on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as Mayor of this great City, I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with […]

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The Problem of Politics in a Post-Truth Society

I think there’s a fundamental paradox surrounding the efficaciousness of politics in a post-truth society. By post-truth I mean a culture that has an increasing indifference towards facts and evidence in favor of emotional appeals and personal experience. That our society in general and our politics in particular can be accurately described as post-truth seems […]

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Friedrich Nietzsche and the Secularization of Society

In 1882 the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously declared “God is dead… and we have killed him.”  The “we” he spoke of were the other Enlightenment thinkers who ushered in an age of reason and rationality that sought to undermine traditional forms of religious belief. The dawn of scientific inquiry, they thought, suddenly rendered belief […]

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So you care about Society, Eh?

We live in a time where people are very aware of our societal problems. Discussions about lowering the poverty rate, helping the homeless, reducing racial inequality, curbing discrimination, improving education, reducing crime, etc. have become commonplace. And there’s a long list of complex programs, policies, and large-scale social engineering being proposed as solutions to these […]

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Easter is about New Creation

What did Easter mean to Jesus? We talk a lot about what Easter means to us but what did Jesus Himself think He was accomplishing on Easter Sunday? It’s an important question because it reveals a problem: There has become a large discrepancy between what Easter means to modern Christians and what it originally meant […]

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