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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 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).

By Jake Meador

The Mainline We Need

September 22nd, 2023|16 min read

By Jake Meador

Mega Churches and Reformed Catholicity

September 8th, 2023|11 min read

By Jake Meador

Sloganeering Isn't How You Do Political Theology

September 6th, 2023|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Easter

April 9th, 2023

By Jake Meador

Good Friday

April 7th, 2023

By Jake Meador

He is Risen

April 17th, 2022

By Jake Meador

Book Review: The Household and the War for the Cosmos by C. R. Wiley

September 20th, 2019|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Book Review: One by One by Gina Dalfonzo

June 28th, 2017|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Reviewing Anthony Esolen's "Out of the Ashes"

March 10th, 2017|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Regarding Nebraska

September 12th, 2016|12 min read

By Jake Meador

The Evangelical Gender Crack-Up

July 14th, 2016|9 min read

By Jake Meador

On Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

July 7th, 2016|9 min read

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By Jake Meador

Tolkien's Holy Fools

March 14th, 2016|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Brief Update

December 14th, 2015

By Jake Meador

Listener Response to the Mere Fidelity Refugee Episode

September 28th, 2015|3 min read

By Jake Meador

The Search for General Tso

September 23rd, 2015|4 min read

By Jake Meador

On Tinder and Why It's OK to Commodify Sex

August 19th, 2015|4 min read

By Jake Meador

Christian Ethics, Evangelicals, and Functional Marcionism

May 26th, 2015|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Arguing For and Against Capital Punishment

May 19th, 2015|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Bill Simmons, ESPN, and the New Writing Economy

May 11th, 2015|4 min read