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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

Schaeffer: Excluding SSA Christians from Church Life is “Cruel and Wrong.”

July 14th, 2015|6 min read

By Jake Meador

The Inevitability of Same-Sex Marriage

July 2nd, 2015|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Home, Retreat, and the Benedict Option

June 1st, 2015|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Christian Ethics, Evangelicals, and Functional Marcionism

May 26th, 2015|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Evangelicals and the Search for Credibility

May 20th, 2015|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Arguing For and Against Capital Punishment

May 19th, 2015|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Bill Simmons, ESPN, and the New Writing Economy

May 11th, 2015|4 min read

By Jake Meador

A Brief Thought on the Benedict Option

May 4th, 2015|2 min read

By Jake Meador

What Zlatan Ibrahimovic Taught Me About Enchantment

April 28th, 2015|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Reviewing The New Parish and New Evangelical Language

April 21st, 2015|8 min read

By Jake Meador

On GK Chesterton and Chicken Vindaloo

April 13th, 2015|7 min read

By Jake Meador

The Politics of the Christmas Truce

April 9th, 2015|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Fatigue from the Culture War That Never Was

April 7th, 2015|5 min read

By Jake Meador

What I Saw in the Shire--JRR Tolkien and the Love of Little Things

March 25th, 2015|3 min read

By Jake Meador

The Law and the Burden of Love in Harry Potter

March 20th, 2015|5 min read

By Jake Meador

The Narrow Vision of House of Cards

March 3rd, 2015|4 min read

By Jake Meador

The Forgetfulness of Love in Harry Potter

February 3rd, 2015|4 min read

By Jake Meador

The Demands of Love in Harry Potter

January 23rd, 2015|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Curiosity and Love in Harry Potter

January 6th, 2015|5 min read

By Jake Meador

The Marriage Pledge and the Libertarian Solution to the Marriage Debate

November 19th, 2014|4 min read