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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

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