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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 MeadorEvangelicalismCulture War
In the aftermath of the great awokening, we have seen the emergence of four new and distinct evangelical responses.
Jake MeadorChurch
We don't need a recapitulation of the 1950s Mainline of America's third republic, but a different sort of mainline that can thrive in her fourth republic.
Jake MeadorChurch
The loss of the Baby Boomers and mass dechurching will give megachurches an even larger role in the American church. What should they do with that power?
Jake MeadorPolitical Theology
It isn't surprising or wrong that many are reconsidering the 'nation' as globalization fails. But this return must be marked by wisdom, care, and piety.
Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalismBooks
Though there is never a time when personal integrity is irrelevant, there are limits to what integrity alone can do.
Jake MeadorChurch
Corruption and abuse have driven many Americans away from church. But these are not the only things driving dechurching or even the most common things.
Jake MeadorFamilyChurchMarriageSexuality
On why we never ask deeper questions and instead mostly yell at heavily bearded conservative men on Twitter for making creepy comments about yoga pants
Jake MeadorTechnologyGender
Sheila Gregoire's attack on Nancy Pearcey is the latest example of how post-evangelical and Christian nationalist online styles are eerily similar.
Jake MeadorPolitical Theology
Contrary to the claims of white nationalists masquerading as Christians, Augustine's concept of the order of love has nothing to do with ethnicity.
Jake MeadorPolitical TheologyCurrent Politics
We should reimagine our politics to favor people's long-term good over their short-term pleasure. This proposal offers several ways we might do that.
Jake MeadorCurrent PoliticsPlace
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
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.
