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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

Purity as Branding in the Evangelical Sub-Culture

September 2nd, 2016|7 min read

By Jake Meador

More on Sex After Christianity

September 1st, 2016|10 min read

By Jake Meador

On David Gushee’s Dishonesty

August 24th, 2016|10 min read

By Jake Meador

Francis Schaeffer and Christian Intellectualism

August 18th, 2016|16 min read

By Jake Meador

When Writers Become Brands

August 10th, 2016|14 min read

By Jake Meador

An Addendum on Evangelicals Endorsing Trump

August 5th, 2016|11 min read

By Jake Meador

The Evangelical Case for Voting for David Duke

August 3rd, 2016|10 min read

By Jake Meador

Soma and the Silencing of Evangelicalism After Trump

July 22nd, 2016|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Hamilton, Meritocracy, and Patriotism

July 20th, 2016|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Gender, Home Economies, and the Church, Ctd.

July 15th, 2016|13 min read

By Jake Meador

The Evangelical Gender Crack-Up

July 14th, 2016|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Minich and Leeman Joint Statement on Ecclesiology

July 11th, 2016|1 min read

By Jake Meador

3 Ecclesiology Questions Protestant Evangelicals Must Answer

July 11th, 2016|6 min read

By Jake Meador

On Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

July 7th, 2016|9 min read

By Jake Meador

The Trinity Debate and “Big Eva”

June 29th, 2016|9 min read

By Jake Meador

The Predictable Rhetoric of Evangelicalism

June 24th, 2016|13 min read

By Jake Meador

Reading with Big Eva

June 10th, 2016|8 min read

By Jake Meador

On the Quirky Author Bio

June 8th, 2016|5 min read

By Jake Meador

6 Theses on Online Writing and Civility

June 7th, 2016|10 min read

By Jake Meador

Remembering John Webster (1955-2016)

May 27th, 2016|12 min read