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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, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

By Jake Meador

Seven Notes on Bostock v Clayton County and the Future of Social Conservatism

June 17th, 2020|11 min read

By Jake Meador

Summarizing the PCA Committee Report on Human Sexuality

May 19th, 2020|24 min read

By Jake Meador

O’Donovan on the Secular

May 19th, 2020|1 min read

By Jake Meador

Christopher Dawson on Bourgeois Culture

May 18th, 2020|2 min read

By Jake Meador

Should Religious Conservatives Aspire to Notoriety?

May 15th, 2020|10 min read

By Jake Meador

What Can and Can’t Be Said About “First Things”

May 15th, 2020|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Gutierrez Against the Doctrine of the Two

May 14th, 2020|3 min read

By Jake Meador

O’Donovan on Reading

May 13th, 2020|1 min read

By Jake Meador

Keep Christianity Weird

May 12th, 2020|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Busena and Emmanuel’s Story: Refugees Seeking Peace

May 8th, 2020|13 min read

By Jake Meador

Thinking Christianly About the Ahmaud Arbery Lynching

May 7th, 2020|8 min read

By Jake Meador

Liberalism, the American Right, and the Place of Love in Politics

May 5th, 2020|20 min read

By Jake Meador

Sacred Season Episode 7: Pandemic Special

April 1st, 2020|1 min read

By Jake Meador

Steel Manning First Things

March 24th, 2020|11 min read

By Jake Meador

Augustine Amongst the Strong Gods

March 23rd, 2020|14 min read

By Jake Meador

How One Church is Responding to Coronavirus

March 12th, 2020|2 min read

By Jake Meador

The Latest Controversy in the PCA’s Missouri Presbytery, Explained

March 9th, 2020|12 min read

By Jake Meador

Nations and Nation-States: A Question for National Conservatives

March 5th, 2020|11 min read

By Jake Meador

Notes on Shepherding the Spiritual Cynic

March 2nd, 2020|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Sacred Season Episode 6: Lent

February 26th, 2020|3 min read