Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

Jake Meador

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6 Theses on Online Writing and Civility

Remembering John Webster (1955-2016)

If the American church is dying it’s because we deserve it.

Monasteries, Protestantism, and the Joy of Indifference

Evangelicalism After Trump: The religious left isn’t a solution.

“Trials are Precious”

Reviewing “Disrupted” by Dan Lyons

Housekeeping News

Religious Extremism and Religious Liberty

Hope, History, and the American Church After Obergefell

3 Lessons from “The Faith of Christopher Hitchens”

Purity, Ecclesiology, and the Benedict Option

Boycotts and the End of Neighborliness

Davenant House, Christian Community, and the Work of Study Centers

“The Seer” Gets Wendell Berry Exactly Right.

An Interview with Laura Dunn, Director of “The Seer”

Tolkien's Holy Fools

The Redundancy of House of Cards

Of Jayber Crow and Donald Trump

The Battle for the Bible and a “Literal” Hermeneutic