The Southern Baptist writer and preacher Michael Spencer coined the phrase “wretched urgency” nearly 20 years ago. He had in mind a disposition common among Christians he had known to rush about in a state of constant discontent and inadequacy, fearful there was some loftier spiritual task they ought to be engaged in but weren’t.
Jake Meador lives in his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife and four children. He is a contributing writer at The Dispatch and serves as the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy, a media organization working for Christian renewal. He is the author of multiple books, and his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, National Review, and First Things, among others.
