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2025 Eliot Awards

December 24th, 2025 | 6 min read

By Jake Meador

Each year we like to honor the best writing published elsewhere by small and large magazines as well as independent writers. We call these honors "the Eliot Awards" for T. S. Eliot, who was himself a great man of letters and whose work has influenced us here at Mere Orthodoxy in many ways.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.