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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 MeadorPoetry
For Alcuin, the nightingale's song not only lifts human beings toward beauty, but actually transforms us as well.
Jake MeadorPoliticsCulture War
Secular media that treat utterly ordinary Christian beliefs as markers of Christian nationalism will only help promote totalitarian Christian nationalism.
Jake MeadorTechnology
The defining problem of the next era of American life is likely to be the question of how to stay human in a technologically mediated world.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
Political finger guns is a style of politics that mistakes radical ideas for a real plan and blithely ignores questions about process and implementation.
Jake MeadorTechnologyEthicsChurchFormation
The technological challenges we will soon face are not the sort that can be defeated primarily through reason and argumentation.
Jake MeadorChurchFormation
While therapy and counseling can be a great good, they also can slide into a totalizing system that undercuts Christian discipleship.
Jake MeadorEthicsFormation
Is mercy a vice or a virtue? I think most of us want it to be the latter. But on the logic of Jordan Peterson's intellectual system, it might be a vice.
Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism
The most significant thing about the Alistair Begg affair isn't Begg himself or his advice, but how the affair highlights the weakness of evangelicalism.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
Matthew Lee Anderson's book is a call to revel in the delights of existence itself and to recognize the inexhaustibility of the God who calls us to exist.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
The reformed charismatic church planting network Acts 29 serves as a model for the evangelical fracturing and can offer us many valuable lessons.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
Here are five reminders to hopefully help you keep your head and your piety amidst what is likely to be a rancorous and unpleasant year.
Jake Meador
Here are our best essays, reviews, and articles from 2023.