Mere Orthodoxy

Media for Faithful, Reflective and Patient Christian Renewal

Mere Orthodoxy is a distinguished, high-quality, distinctly orthodox, and constructive Christian Digital and Print media organization with over 500,000 readers and more than one million reads each year. Our audience is diverse, young, educated, engaged, and hungry to learn. The core of our audience are leaders or aspiring leaders in the Protestant Evangelical movement.

Mere Orthodoxy writes and publishes multiple articles weekly, has a weekly email Digest, and a Triannual Print Journal, and a podcast (Mere Fidelity).

We seek to give intellectual, moral, and biblical substance to the renewal and resilience of a faithful Christian presence in our post-Christian culture. We seek to be thoughtful, faithful, challenging, calm, reasonable and comprehensive in bringing truth to bear on a wide array of issues. Our goal is to develop Christians who are thinkers, those who “can research a topic, reflect upon it and address it with nuance. People who can follow a logical train of thought and allow the logic to confront (and even correct) their own errors.”

We speak on and into a wide array of topics and issues including Personal spiritual formation and renewal, Church and Ministry challenges and opportunities, and culture facing issues like politics, technology, marriage and family, human flourishing, Education, art and literature, book and event reviews.

Our Team

Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief/Chairman of Mere Orthodoxy. He is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied English and History. He lives in Lincoln, NE with his wife Joie, their daughter Davy Joy, and sons Wendell, Austin, and Ambrose. Jake's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, Christianity Today, Fare Forward, the University Bookman, Books & Culture, First Things, National Review, Front Porch Republic, and The Run of Play and he has written or contributed to several books, including "In Search of the Common Good," "What Are Christians For?" (both with InterVarsity Press), "A Protestant Christendom?" (with Davenant Press), and "Telling the Stories Right" (with the Front Porch Republic Press).

Mark Kremer

Mark Kremer is the Publisher/Executive Director of Mere Orthodoxy. He is a graduate of the University of Northwestern St. Paul, MN. His career includes 30 years in pastoral leadership at two churches, and more than 20 years in non-profit leadership, and publishing. In addition to leading Mere Orthodoxy, he consults with Churches and ministries on leadership, vision, strategic planning, outreach, stewardship and cultural engagement. He and his wife, Donna, have six grown children and three grandchildren.

Our Partners

Endeavor

Endeavor is a digital ministry that produces Christian media for discipleship in the technological age.

What others are saying

"Mere Orthodoxy is unique in the world of journals and journalism. First, it is committed to historic Protestant orthodoxy. Indeed it sees, rightly, far more resources in the work of early Protestant thinkers than modern evangelicalism does. Yet, secondly, it uses that orthodoxy to reflect on, critique, and engage with the most contemporary cultural developments. Third, it deploys many great younger Christian scholars whose voices are so important now. Mere O is important for Christians to read and support."

Tim Keller: Founding Pastor Redeemer Presbyterian Church

I find myself wondering whether the loss of grip on Christian morality and Christian ethical reflection that are so evident in pastoral ministry is simply one side of a loss of grip on theology… The ordained clergy are often, as it were, on the back foot themselves, in an important way, not resourced to cope with the sort of world they face in their parish… Given the provisions we make for them I’m not sure what else we can expect. That sounds a bit gloomy, doesn’t it? Well they can always subscribe to Mere Orthodoxy, and that will give them a little bit of help along the way.

Oliver O'Donovan: Fellow of the British Academy and professor emeritus of Christian ethics and practical theology at the University of Edinburgh.

I have five Christian websites pinned on my home screen, and Mere Orthodoxy is one of them. It’s also the one whose articles I spend the most time reading, thanks to the blend of biblical, historical and cultural insight, the clarity and charity of the writing, and the theological vision it represents. Also, if I’m honest, I just love reading people who are much smarter than I am discussing things that matter. Bravo, Mere O.

Andrew Wilson: Teaching pastor at King’s Church London

In an era when the culture of online engagement tilts less towards the establishment of truth and more towards the scoring of points, Mere Orthodoxy is a place where intellectual engagement with pressing theological and cultural issues is pursued in a manner self-consciously connected to Christian character. It does not reduce thinking to soundbites, clickbait, or tribal signaling. Instead it seeks to promote thoughtful discussion on pressing topics that conduces to the peace, unity, and edification of God's people. Even when I disagree with the views expressed, I always find my own thinking challenged and sharpened. If you believe that the goal of Christian intellectual interaction is that we should grow both in truth and in character, Mere Orthodoxy should be on your regular reading list.

Carl Trueman: Professor: Grove City College, Fellow: Ethics and Public Policy Center

What Guides Us

We are committed to the Nicaean orthodoxy as well as the orthodox teachings of Scripture and the church concerning sex and gender.
We adopt postures that equip us to defend Christian orthodoxy in Christian ways. We are not aggressive or apologetic, but candid. We are not anxious or fearful, but hopeful and confident in the providence of God.
We produce media that is orthodox and resistant to radicalization and extremism. We call our audience to reflection, patience, and simple faithfulness, NOT rage, recklessness, or compromise.
We are not tribal or partisan, but instead dedicated to the pursuit of truth before all else.
We write, speak, think, read, and reflect on the things of God publicly and privately across a print magazine, website, email, podcasts, and video. In a digital age, we know that online content is one of the primary ways that people’s moral imagination, intellectual understanding and beliefs is formed.
We equip our readers to fulfill the great commandment to love God and neighbor -doing so in sincerity and wisdom. We believe that there is an actual reality we all share with our neighbors, that God calls us to love our neighbors with that shared reality, and that one we do that is by being firmly committed to reason, persuasion, and conversation as genuine social goods that we want to promote and preserve.
We believe and equip people to see the world as God made it real, objective, coherent and beautiful and that when we go against the way the world works, we crash against hard reality. But because the world works that way, we also believe it is possible to think, converse and even argue together as we journey toward the good.
We are not respecters of people or titles. We don’t care about your credentials or your platform. We care about our writer’s commitment to the truth and their ability to pursue the truth with elegant, delightful, and clear speech. With readers, supporters, leaders, etc. we don’t care about their money or their influence. We care about their commitment to the pursuit of the truth and to the irenic, commonly shared pursuit of what is true.
We believe that God has called us not to vanquish our enemies or change the world, but to be faithful to the commands he gives us in scripture and to trust Him with the rest.

The Christian story is one of unexpected and unlooked for resurrection. As we seek to follow Christ, we work with the hope of final resurrection, and yet also with hope that God might breathe new life into the west’s dry bones. It is with that hope that we go about this work.