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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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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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Renewal, Letting Go, Political Theology: Lessons from Up

Near the end of his essay on poetry and marriage Wendell Berry considers how free verse fits into his broader consideration of the relationship between fixed poetic forms and fixed

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A Refuge for Chaotic Saints

I cannot think of other western nations that so reliably produce such remarkable and unruly saints as we seem to grow quite predictably in America.

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A Story to Remember This Week at General Assembly

Being a genuinely national denomination creates challenges no one else faces. But the rewards are more than worth it.

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Organizational competence is a way of loving neighbor.

When people don't care about policy and procedure, institutions are unequipped to deal with radicals who undermine the institution's purity and peace.

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Welcome to the New Mere Orthodoxy

We're launching a new site and member dashboard. Read this to learn why.

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Writers vs Content Producers

The shift from 'writer' to 'content producer' is more significant than it might at first seem and it affects more than just writers.

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Some Things Shouldn't Be Made Into a Joke

Anyone who attempts to dismiss or normalize violating the first table of God's ten commandments will damn themselves if they do not repent.

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The Liberalism of George Smiley

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.

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Creating Membership

For Berry and the Christian tradition, authentic political community is a thing that can be created, not merely something that arises from nature.

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Confronting the Unman

How exactly should we understand a world in which people willingly outsource something as fundamental as human conversation to a machine?

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The Bright Sadness of Ben Sasse

Ben Sasse has made a gift of his dying, something which he can do only because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Liturgies of the Wild and Non-Expressivist Religion

If you want people to be bewildered by church, then church needs to be weird in some way.