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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. He is a 2010 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied English and History. He lives in Lincoln, NE with his wife Joie, their daughter Davy Joy, and sons Wendell, Austin, and Ambrose. Jake's writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, Christianity Today, Fare Forward, the University Bookman, Books & Culture, First Things, National Review, Front Porch Republic, and The Run of Play and he has written or contributed to several books, including "In Search of the Common Good," "What Are Christians For?" (both with InterVarsity Press), "A Protestant Christendom?" (with Davenant Press), and "Telling the Stories Right" (with the Front Porch Republic Press).

By Jake Meador

What I Saw in the Shire--JRR Tolkien and the Love of Little Things

March 25th, 2015|3 min read

By Jake Meador

The Forgetfulness of Love in Harry Potter

February 3rd, 2015|4 min read

By Jake Meador

Respectability and the Plausibility of Orthodoxy

September 4th, 2014|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Should Sermons Be Published?

August 21st, 2014|5 min read

By Jake Meador

3 Thoughts on Kindle Unlimited

July 22nd, 2014|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Responses to Why We Need Small Towns

October 14th, 2013|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Speaking Prophetically to the Church or Publicly Criticizing the Church?

August 1st, 2013|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Short-term Missions Trips and Cultural Institutions

July 26th, 2013|4 min read

By Jake Meador

On substitutionary atonement and disgraced politicians

June 7th, 2013|6 min read

By Jake Meador

What is to be done about the evangelical industrial complex?

May 3rd, 2013|5 min read

By Jake Meador

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: A(nother) Review

November 30th, 2012|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Why C.S. Lewis is Wrong on Marriage

October 9th, 2012|10 min read

By Jake Meador

The Title Waiting for Mr. Meador's Book

July 19th, 2010|3 min read

By Jake Meador

What makes good writing?

July 13th, 2010|1 min read

By Jake Meador

On Land and Its Marks

July 8th, 2010|4 min read

By Jake Meador

Nothing Behind the Curtain - Reflections on a Wedding

July 6th, 2010|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Baptized Consumerism - An Argument for Christendom

July 1st, 2010|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Arguing with George William Curtis

June 27th, 2010|2 min read

By Jake Meador

Gender, the home, and how we define "work"

June 21st, 2010|3 min read

By Jake Meador

The Sustainability of a Purely Evangelical Identity

June 10th, 2010|1 min read