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
Blogging Through W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk–Chapter 1
May 9th, 2017|14 min read
By Jake Meador
Quiz: What Political Theology Are You?
May 1st, 2017|1 min read
By Jake Meador
Indexing Political Theologies: Six Christianity and Culture Strategies
April 24th, 2017|38 min read
By Jake Meador
Gangs of New Jerusalem: Act 1
April 20th, 2017|11 min read
By Jake Meador
On Reinvigorating Family Worship: A Mere O Project
April 12th, 2017|3 min read
By Jake Meador
Is it really that bad?: Christianity, Secularism, and the Apocalypse
April 10th, 2017|27 min read
By Jake Meador
How Do Movements Grow? The BenOp, Conversation, and Local Advocacy
March 30th, 2017|19 min read
By Jake Meador
Reviewing Rod Dreher’s “The Benedict Option”
March 14th, 2017|24 min read
By Jake Meador
The “New Alarmism” is not new and is not alarmism.
March 10th, 2017|15 min read
By Jake Meador
Reviewing Anthony Esolen's "Out of the Ashes"
March 10th, 2017|7 min read
By Jake Meador
On Presidential Politics and Evangelical Cultural Clout
March 3rd, 2017|10 min read
By Jake Meador
Lent, Individualism, and Christian Piety–An Email Conversation
March 1st, 2017|29 min read
By Jake Meador
Machen on the Decline of Christian Humanism
February 27th, 2017|2 min read
By Jake Meador
What should a priest be?
February 27th, 2017|1 min read
By Jake Meador
The Benedict Option and Its Reviewers
February 23rd, 2017|9 min read
By Jake Meador
Attending to the Language: Trump and the GOP Leadership
February 13th, 2017|7 min read
By Jake Meador
The Need to be Outside Christianity
January 26th, 2017|1 min read
By Jake Meador
Christianity Will Cost You Everything
January 25th, 2017
By Jake Meador
The Business of Evangelicalism: Notes on Timothy Gloege’s “Guaranteed Pure”
January 24th, 2017|12 min read
By Jake Meador
“Silence,” Martyrdom, and the Call to Die
January 23rd, 2017|9 min read