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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, 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.

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By Jake Meador

Education, Catechesis, and the State

February 2nd, 2023|5 min read

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Reading Ratzinger

January 2nd, 2023|2 min read

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2022 Eliot Awards

December 27th, 2022|5 min read

By Jake Meador

My Work This Year

December 21st, 2022|4 min read

By Jake Meador

Where Did the College-Aged Evangelicals Go?

December 21st, 2022

By Jake Meador

Best of Mere Orthodoxy 2022

December 19th, 2022|12 min read

By Jake Meador

A Faithful Second Voice: Announcing Mere O’s 2022 End of Year Campaign

December 19th, 2022|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Stop Blaming COVID

December 16th, 2022|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Nine Months After Twitter

December 16th, 2022|3 min read

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Tolkien, Marriage, Liberalism

December 7th, 2022|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Tech and Leadership

December 5th, 2022|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Tolkien Was Right: Notes on the Respect for Marriage Act and the Post-Boomer Church

November 30th, 2022|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Gratitude 2022 (1)

November 21st, 2022|3 min read

By Jake Meador

The Right Instructions

November 9th, 2022|11 min read

By Jake Meador

Church and “the Therapeutic”, Ctd.

November 3rd, 2022|6 min read

By Jake Meador

HR Goes to Church

November 2nd, 2022|7 min read

By Jake Meador

The Barnacle Problem

October 20th, 2022|2 min read

By Jake Meador

Networks v Institutions

October 14th, 2022|5 min read

By Jake Meador

Haunted by Mars Hill(s)

October 12th, 2022|4 min read

By Jake Meador

Alternatives to Culture War

September 29th, 2022|8 min read