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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

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|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Liturgical Jigs and Millennial Burnout

July 24th, 2019|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Post-Liberalism and American Racism

June 28th, 2019|9 min read

By Jake Meador

On the Liberal’s Incoherence: Responding to Charles C. W. Cooke

June 27th, 2019|8 min read

By Jake Meador

In Search of the Common Good Book Launch

June 25th, 2019|4 min read

By Jake Meador

Book Review: Dignity by Chris Arnade

June 18th, 2019|16 min read

By Jake Meador

Can Justice Be Saved? Faith, Love, and Hope in a Political Key

June 17th, 2019