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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

Book Review: Reclaiming Hope by Michael Wear

June 23rd, 2017|9 min read

By Jake Meador

On Father’s Day, Living in Losses, and Home

June 19th, 2017|11 min read

By Jake Meador

Lessons from the UK for American Evangelicals

June 16th, 2017|2 min read

By Jake Meador

On Ben Sasse, Civil Society, and Voting Records

June 15th, 2017|10 min read

By Jake Meador

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk–Chapter 4

June 13th, 2017|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Book Review: Keeping Place by Jen Pollock Michel

June 12th, 2017|15 min read

By Jake Meador

How Marketing Jargon Poisons Christian Community

June 9th, 2017|8 min read

By Jake Meador

Martin Bucer’s Strenuous Life

May 31st, 2017|8 min read

By Jake Meador

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk–Chapter 3

May 30th, 2017|9 min read

By Jake Meador

W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk–Chapter 2 Overview

May 12th, 2017|9 min read

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