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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.

By Jake Meador

How to Interview Political Revolutionaries

May 13th, 2025|16 min read

By Jake Meador

Gratitude

May 1st, 2025|4 min read

By Jake Meador

Evangelical Political Life After the Religious Right

April 21st, 2025|8 min read

By Jake Meador

The Rotten Fruit of Obergefell: On the Kelly Loving Act

April 14th, 2025|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Authenticity is Actually Kind of Boring: On 'Daredevil: Born Again'

April 11th, 2025|3 min read

By Jake Meador

Belonging to a Church in a World with Weak Traditions

March 7th, 2025|12 min read

By Jake Meador

Challenges to Liberalism in the Post-Trump Era

March 6th, 2025|4 min read

By Jake Meador

Totalitarianism in the Shadow of Decadence

March 3rd, 2025|6 min read

By Jake Meador

Instruction Out of the Past

February 25th, 2025|7 min read

By Jake Meador

In Memoriam: Greg Sharpe

February 17th, 2025|7 min read

By Jake Meador

The Ordinary Means of Grace

February 6th, 2025|6 min read

By Jake Meador

The Rise of the Right-Wing Exvangelical

January 31st, 2025|5 min read

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By Jake Meador

After Progressive Neo-Liberalism: What comes next?

January 29th, 2025|16 min read

By Jake Meador

Evangelistic Opportunities in Our Moment

January 13th, 2025|10 min read

By Jake Meador

The Opining Life

January 6th, 2025|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Bible and Theology Reading Plans for 2025

January 3rd, 2025|7 min read

By Jake Meador

Best of 2024: The Evangelistic Shift

January 1st, 2025|9 min read

By Jake Meador

Best of 2024: Reflections on the Evangelical Fracturing, Ten Years In

January 1st, 2025|18 min read

By Jake Meador

The Last Ten Years and the Next Ten

December 26th, 2024|8 min read

By Jake Meador

Best of Mere Orthodoxy, 2024

December 23rd, 2024|7 min read