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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

Sanctified by Grace Blog Tour: Mortification

January 29th, 2016|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Sanctified by Grace Blog Tour: Election

January 26th, 2016|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Announcing Davenant House

January 19th, 2016|2 min read

By Jake Meador

Leaving Difficult Churches III: On Spiritual Abuse, Community, and the Internet

January 18th, 2016|6 min read

By Jake Meador

On Loving and Hating Places

January 15th, 2016|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Is Not Voting in an Election Nihilistic?

January 14th, 2016|5 min read

By Jake Meador

On InterVarsity and Black Lives Matter

January 6th, 2016|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Neo-Anabaptists and the Benedict Option

January 4th, 2016|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Fatherhood and Carrying the Fire

December 23rd, 2015|5 min read

By Jake Meador

On the Chestertonianism of Star Wars

December 21st, 2015|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Brief Update

December 14th, 2015

By Jake Meador

Leaving Difficult Churches II: Common Objects of Love

December 8th, 2015|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Leaving Unhealthy Churches I: Why It’s Hard to Leave

December 7th, 2015|7 min read

By Jake Meador

On Prayer Shaming

December 4th, 2015|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Moral Sentimentalism and Mechanized Society

November 30th, 2015|26 min read

By Jake Meador

CS Lewis Archives of Mere O

November 22nd, 2015|1 min read

By Jake Meador

SJWs, the Careerist Peace, and the American Corporation

November 18th, 2015|6 min read

By Jake Meador

When Grace “Fails”—The Music of Call the Midwife

November 13th, 2015|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Evangelicals need to read Richard Hooker.

November 9th, 2015|15 min read

By Jake Meador

Evangelicals are not modern gnostics. We’re materialists.

November 4th, 2015|6 min read