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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

The Ethics of Watching Mad Men

April 5th, 2013|5 min read

By Jake Meador

A Tribute to Edith Schaeffer

April 2nd, 2013|7 min read

By Jake Meador

House of Cards: Kevin Spacey, Tolkien, and the Bible

February 26th, 2013|6 min read

By Jake Meador

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: A(nother) Review

November 30th, 2012|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Why C.S. Lewis is Wrong on Marriage

October 9th, 2012|10 min read

By Jake Meador

A Failure of Storytelling: Kony 2012 and the Social Imagination

March 12th, 2012|8 min read

By Jake Meador

The Title Waiting for Mr. Meador's Book

July 19th, 2010|3 min read

By Jake Meador

What makes good writing?

July 13th, 2010|1 min read

By Jake Meador

On Land and Its Marks

July 8th, 2010|4 min read

By Jake Meador

Nothing Behind the Curtain - Reflections on a Wedding

July 6th, 2010|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Baptized Consumerism - An Argument for Christendom

July 1st, 2010|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Arguing with George William Curtis

June 27th, 2010|2 min read

By Jake Meador

Gender and the Body – How did we get here?

June 24th, 2010|4 min read

By Jake Meador

Gender, the home, and how we define "work"

June 21st, 2010|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and the Abortion Debate or Why You Should Buy Matt’s Book

June 17th, 2010|2 min read

By Jake Meador

Three Reasons You Should Watch Mad Men

June 14th, 2010|2 min read

By Jake Meador

Sayers on Work: What about the Sabbath?

June 11th, 2010|1 min read

By Jake Meador

The Sustainability of a Purely Evangelical Identity

June 10th, 2010|1 min read

By Jake Meador

Lousy Trailers and Sewage-filled Ponds

June 9th, 2010|4 min read

By Jake Meador

“Victimization” Studies and the Evangelical Conscience

June 9th, 2010|1 min read