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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

On The Traditionalists and the Protestants

November 13th, 2019|8 min read

By Jake Meador

15 Proposals for Church Renewal

November 11th, 2019|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Thomas Aquinas Reviews Worship Songs: Breathe

November 8th, 2019|5 min read

By Jake Meador

The Quiet Centrality of Market States

November 7th, 2019|7 min read

By Jake Meador

The Democrats (Probably) Won’t Outflank Themselves

November 4th, 2019|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Reformation Day and the Waning of the Western Church

October 28th, 2019|8 min read

By Jake Meador

Eucharistic Presence and the Life of Faith

October 23rd, 2019|2 min read

By Jake Meador

The Liberty of a Christian in a Democratic Age

October 23rd, 2019|8 min read

By Jake Meador

Liberty Doesn’t Mean What They Think It Means

October 18th, 2019|7 min read

By Jake Meador

There is No Wealth but Life: Rootedness in an Orphaned World

October 14th, 2019|18 min read

By Jake Meador

The Necessity of Nations

October 11th, 2019|8 min read

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: Surprised by Paradox by Jen Pollock Michel

September 17th, 2019|7 min read

By Jake Meador

What is a society?

September 10th, 2019|8 min read

By Jake Meador

Impartiality is Not Neutrality

September 10th, 2019|7 min read

By Jake Meador

What are nations for?

September 6th, 2019|9 min read

By Jake Meador

The Post-Liberal State and the (Highly Technical) Goods of Modernity

August 14th, 2019|7 min read

By Jake Meador

When the News Isn’t News: On Deconversion Narratives

August 5th, 2019|1 min read

By Jake Meador

Augustinianism and Audience in “In Search of the Common Good”

August 2nd, 2019|10 min read

By Jake Meador

Against the Political Atheists: On the Safety of the Dead Consensus

July 31st, 2019|7 min read