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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.

Jake MeadorCurrent PoliticsPlace

On Not Being Weird About Where You Live

The true lines of the culture war divide in America are not state-based, but are fuzzier, dividing blue urban hubs from red rural heartlands.

Jake MeadorChurch

The Point of Church Isn't to Make You Feel Whole

Vanity and self-absorption are some of the surest ways I know to undermine church life and hinder the work of God in local congregations.

Jake MeadorTechnologyPolitical Theology

The Limits of Willpower

A bare proceduralist political project will not be sufficient in an era that, through technology, makes destructive vices so readily accessible.

Jake MeadorTechnology

Phone-Free Churches?

Should churches attempt to ban or limit smartphones in public worship?

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

Evangelicalism, Reformed Catholicism, Ctd.

Jake continues his reflection on why evangelicalism has failed and what can be done to help promote renewal.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismPolitical TheologyHistory/Church History

The End of Evangelicalism and the Possibility of Reformed Catholicism

The evangelical moment is ending, buried under contradictions and corruption. But a new, better chapter of Christian history in America might be beginning.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture

Re: Mobs and Cancel Culture - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Due to a variety of factors, journalism in the digital age has in many places been swallowed by PR. Part of this is a function of the way online networks tend to work, while part of it is due to […]

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I think we should stop shrinking back. - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

There’s an old Hauerwas quote that a Mennonite friend of mine never tires of sharing: Christians are often tempted, particularly in this time called modern, to say more than we know. We are so tempted because we fear we do […]

Jake MeadorChurch

People Aren't Avatars for All the Good and/or Bad Things - Commonplaces

Here’s a bit of PCA trivia for you. In the last two years, three of the denomination’s most influential pastors have gone home to be with the Lord. They are Frank Barker, Harry Reeder, and Tim Keller. Of the three, […]

Jake MeadorChurch

People Aren't Avatars for All the Good and/or Bad Things - Commonplaces

Here’s a bit of PCA trivia for you. In the last two years, three of the denomination’s most influential pastors have gone home to be with the Lord. They are Frank Barker, Harry Reeder, and Tim Keller. Of the three, […]

Jake Meador

Remembering a Kind Man - Commonplaces

I first came across Tim Keller’s name around 2005 or 2006. I grew up in the kind of church that thinks John MacArthur is a liberal and so I was doing the old millennial version of deconstructing pretty hard by […]

Jake Meador

Remembering a Kind Man - Commonplaces

I first came across Tim Keller’s name around 2005 or 2006. I grew up in the kind of church that thinks John MacArthur is a liberal and so I was doing the old millennial version of deconstructing pretty hard by […]