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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

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

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