Jake Meador
Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief 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 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).
Featured / Church / Christian Life
He is Risen
April 17th, 2022
Book Review: The Household and the War for the Cosmos by C. R. Wiley
September 20th, 2019|6 min read
Books / Benedict Option / Anthony M. Esolen
Reviewing Anthony Esolen's "Out of the Ashes"
March 10th, 2017|7 min read
Gender Roles / Gender / Marriage / CBMW / complementarianism
The Evangelical Gender Crack-Up
July 14th, 2016|9 min read
Black Lives Matter / race / Alton Sterling
On Alton Sterling and Philando Castile
July 7th, 2016|9 min read
Literature / Lord of the Rings / J. R. R. Tolkien / Benedict Option
Tolkien's Holy Fools
March 14th, 2016|6 min read
Refugee / Pro-Life / Social Trends / Social Justice / social justice
Listener Response to the Mere Fidelity Refugee Episode
September 28th, 2015|3 min read
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The Search for General Tso
September 23rd, 2015|4 min read
Technology / Sexuality / Tinder / Dating / sexuality
On Tinder and Why It's OK to Commodify Sex
August 19th, 2015|4 min read
History/Church History / church history / Law / Marcionism / Capital Punishment
Christian Ethics, Evangelicals, and Functional Marcionism
May 26th, 2015|6 min read
Law / Dzhokhar Tsarnaev / Boston Bombing / Capital Punishment
Arguing For and Against Capital Punishment
May 19th, 2015|3 min read
the vocation of writing / Writing / Bill Simmons
Bill Simmons, ESPN, and the New Writing Economy
May 11th, 2015|4 min read
Literature / Lord of the Rings / J. R. R. Tolkien
What I Saw in the Shire--JRR Tolkien and the Love of Little Things
March 25th, 2015|3 min read
Culture / Church / Social Trends
Respectability and the Plausibility of Orthodoxy
September 4th, 2014|3 min read