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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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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 MeadorCulture
The shift from 'writer' to 'content producer' is more significant than it might at first seem and it affects more than just writers.
Jake MeadorCultureFormation
Anyone who attempts to dismiss or normalize violating the first table of God's ten commandments will damn themselves if they do not repent.
Jake MeadorCultureBook Reviews
We often do not think of democratic liberalism has possessing its own sort of moral excellencies, yet the model of George Smiley suggests that we should.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
For Berry and the Christian tradition, authentic political community is a thing that can be created, not merely something that arises from nature.
Jake MeadorTechnology
How exactly should we understand a world in which people willingly outsource something as fundamental as human conversation to a machine?
Jake MeadorFormation
Ben Sasse has made a gift of his dying, something which he can do only because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Jake MeadorCultureChurchBook ReviewsFormation
If you want people to be bewildered by church, then church needs to be weird in some way.
Jake MeadorCulture
A small magazine occupies a unique role in the task of creating an ecosystem of mutually reenforcing Christian institutions devoted to the good of society.
Jake MeadorCulture
Learning to compelling convey truth and beauty is not an ability we simply acquire in a rote way; it is a capacity that is cultivated over a lifetime.
Jake MeadorCulture
National conservatism fails as a viable strategy for American conservatives. But that does not mean we need to return to fusionism.
Jake MeadorBibleTheology
A set of reading plans to take you through the Bible in 2026 or through the works of some of the church's greatest teachers.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
A recap of some of the Mere O band's favorite books they read in 2025
