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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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By Jake Meador

Best of Mere Orthodoxy 2020

December 29th, 2020|14 min read

By Jake Meador

2020 Eliot Awards

December 28th, 2020|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Christian Hospitality in an Age of Fear: An Interview with Rod Dreher

November 9th, 2020|32 min read

By Jake Meador

An Interview with Andrew Peterson About “The Wingfeather Saga”

October 12th, 2020|28 min read

By Jake Meador

Narnia Essay Contest

October 2nd, 2020|1 min read

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