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Brandon Meeks’ religion realized he was someone else
8 min readFeb 22, 2025
Until last month, Brandon Meeks was a rising star in Christianity. He was best known for folksy stories about Southerners and very right-wing politics.
He’d started out writing under the pseudonym ‘No Jesuit Tricks’, then was blogging as himself. He was a Christian scholar, basically, who loved Southern literature and music and Republican politics.
He left out…15-year-old boys.
He spoke with a deep Southern baritone, and came across as humorous and wise.
He became a welcome presence in the Christian online world. As one fan put it, Meeks was “a modern-day Chesterton.” Not a cleric himself, Meeks had an advisory role in an Anglican church near where he lived in Arkansas.
Not everyone liked him. Christians could think him, as one queasy fan put it, as “an incredible writer, just unbelievably talented, possessing a genuine gift” — but be wary of him for some reason.
