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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

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|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Reviewing “The End of Protestantism” by Peter Leithart

January 18th, 2017|15 min read

By Jake Meador

The Liturgies of Soccer

January 12th, 2017|26 min read