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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

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

By Jake Meador

Happiness Drives Sacrifice

January 8th, 2017

By Jake Meador

The Abolition of Troy Chatham

January 3rd, 2017|11 min read

By Jake Meador

The Sense of Ownership is Always to be Encouraged

January 2nd, 2017|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Sertillanges on the Intellectual Virtues

January 2nd, 2017|1 min read

By Jake Meador

The Future is Least Like Eternity

January 2nd, 2017|1 min read

By Jake Meador

Sertillanges on the Amateur Scholar

January 2nd, 2017|1 min read

By Jake Meador

The Jingling Bells of Publicity

December 31st, 2016

By Jake Meador

Plough Magazine: The Hole in Wendell Berry’s Gospel

December 28th, 2016|1 min read