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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.

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Thomas Aquinas Reviews Christian Songs: 'Lemonade'

December 10th, 2025|2 min read

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Four Types of Christian Cultural Engagement

November 17th, 2025|17 min read

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Mapping the Political Moment

November 5th, 2025|15 min read

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Celebrating Catholicity on Reformation Day

October 31st, 2025|8 min read

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Are Bari Weiss and Protestant Franco the Only Options?

October 20th, 2025|7 min read

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Presbyterian Formation vs Digital Formation

October 17th, 2025|6 min read

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Even Now, Faithful Presence

October 8th, 2025|19 min read

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Two Models of Stewarding Church Communities

September 26th, 2025|7 min read

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Tom Holland's Three Options for the West

September 22nd, 2025|5 min read

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Becoming the Given: Christian Belonging After the Therapeutic

September 18th, 2025|23 min read

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Why You Can't Dodge Theological Questions

September 5th, 2025|5 min read

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Decadence, Joe Rogan, and Non-Anxious Authority

August 27th, 2025|6 min read

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The American Church in the Fourth Republic

August 11th, 2025|13 min read

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The Reality of Fear and the Presence of Reality: Suffering and Cultural Renewal

August 1st, 2025|16 min read

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Concerning Fr. Edmund Campion

July 30th, 2025|12 min read

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Reading Historic Theology Like an Adult

July 17th, 2025|9 min read

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Character, Competence, and the Life of the Presbyterian Church in America

May 29th, 2025|13 min read

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In Memoriam: Timothy Keller (1950-2023)

May 19th, 2025|8 min read

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How to Interview Political Revolutionaries

May 13th, 2025|16 min read

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Gratitude

May 1st, 2025|4 min read