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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.
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A recap of the past year's work at Mere Orthodoxy
Jake MeadorEliot Awards
The latest edition of Mere Orthodoxy's annual 'Eliot Awards' are now live.
Jake MeadorMusicMere O ToastThomas Reviews Worship Songs
In which the Angelic Doctor considers whether or not Jesus be making lemonade.
Jake MeadorCultureJournalFall 2025
The work of cultural renewal will not come about through populism, separatism, or revanchism, but only through a principled commitment to healthy reform.
Jake MeadorCulture
The post-Trump political moment will be defined by whether or not we can avoid collapsing into competing versions of arbitrary power.
Jake MeadorChurch
The Reformation was necessary because the late medieval church had ceased to be catholic.
Jake MeadorCulture
If the choices we have are Bari Weiss's politics or an imaginary Protestant Franco, the choice is not hard. But surely we have other options?
Jake MeadorTechnologyChurch
Digital formation is an acid that dissolves the work of being formed in a specific ecclesial tradition, such as presbyterianism.
Jake MeadorCultureFormation
Times of chaos can make us question if ordinary Christian practices are sufficient. Yet the underlying facts of our situation are the same as ever.
Jake MeadorChurch
The most relevant division in American churches today might not be chiefly theological in nature, but institutional.
Jake MeadorCulture
Three basic belief systems will define the short-term future of the west. Whether the west has a long-term future depends on how those systems relate.
Jake MeadorCultureChurchFormation
The therapeutic has emerged as a 'secular methodism' of sorts which we use as an attempt to cope with a world without stories, meaning, or belonging.
