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

Fatherhood and Carrying the Fire

On the Chestertonianism of Star Wars

Brief Update

Leaving Difficult Churches II: Common Objects of Love

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

On Prayer Shaming

Moral Sentimentalism and Mechanized Society

CS Lewis Archives of Mere O

SJWs, the Careerist Peace, and the American Corporation

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

Evangelicals need to read Richard Hooker.

Evangelicals are not modern gnostics. We’re materialists.

On the Demise of Grantland

Benedict, Patrick, Jeremiah, and Other Nouns as Well

The Strength of the Hills Is Not Ours–Our Modern Identity Crisis

The Benedict Option and the Pace of Middle Class Life

A Note on Mere O Notes

Neglecting the Body and Ignoring Nature–Thoughts on Complementarianism

Listener Response to the Mere Fidelity Refugee Episode

The Search for General Tso