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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

Steelmanning the “Fill the Seat” Debate

September 21st, 2020|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Announcing the Mere Orthodoxy KickStarter

September 15th, 2020|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Lies, Liberalism, and Sullivan

September 9th, 2020|5 min read

By Jake Meador

A Thousand Liveried Angels Lackey Her: In Memoriam Nancy Snyder

August 21st, 2020|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Conservatism, Out of Decadence

August 13th, 2020|20 min read

By Jake Meador

Children, Culture Wars, and Christian Societies

June 18th, 2020|10 min read

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