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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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Church as NGO - Commonplaces

One of the most pressing problems facing the church in the west right now is how we can course correct after 40 years of failed discipleship strategies. The past decade has exposed the fact that many of the people in […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Church as NGO - Commonplaces

One of the most pressing problems facing the church in the west right now is how we can course correct after 40 years of failed discipleship strategies. The past decade has exposed the fact that many of the people in […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Safety - Commonplaces

One of the more formative experiences of my Christian life came a couple days after my arrival at Rochester L’Abri. It was Sunday evening, which meant high tea. It was an old L’Abri tradition dating back to the Schaeffer’s: Sunday […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Safety - Commonplaces

One of the more formative experiences of my Christian life came a couple days after my arrival at Rochester L’Abri. It was Sunday evening, which meant high tea. It was an old L’Abri tradition dating back to the Schaeffer’s: Sunday […]

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Easter

Easter

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Good Friday

Good Friday

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Good Friday - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As is our annual custom, we are not publishing any new essays, reviews, or other content during the tail end of Holy Week. Instead, hear these musical reflections and consider the extent to which God went to rescue his people.

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A Church That Can't Exist in the World - Commonplaces

Recent years have seen many evangelical thinkers become more alert to the work that individual doctrines do in our broader understanding of the Christian faith and life. The neglected, occasionally despised, and much misunderstood doctrine of divine impassibility, for example, […]

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A Church That Can't Exist in the World - Commonplaces

Recent years have seen many evangelical thinkers become more alert to the work that individual doctrines do in our broader understanding of the Christian faith and life. The neglected, occasionally despised, and much misunderstood doctrine of divine impassibility, for example, […]

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Concerning Candor - Commonplaces

A few readers, responding to the recent PR style essay, have asked what I meant when I referred to adopting a posture of candor as opposed to postures of aggressive belligerence or a kind of apologetic suppliance.

Jake Meador

Concerning Candor - Commonplaces

A few readers, responding to the recent PR style essay, have asked what I meant when I referred to adopting a posture of candor as opposed to postures of aggressive belligerence or a kind of apologetic suppliance.

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The Therapeutic, Ctd. - Commonplaces

Last year we raised a number of concerns about the ubiquity of therapeutic discourse within the evangelical movement. In particular, a number of writers associated with Mere O, including myself, are alarmed by two things in particular: First, the ways in […]