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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 MeadorBook Reviews

CS Lewis on Political Idolatries - Commonplaces

From Screwtape Letters: Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of the partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and […]

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

CS Lewis on Political Idolatries - Commonplaces

From Screwtape Letters: Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of the partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and […]

Jake MeadorEconomicsBook ReviewsJulius NyererePan-Africanism

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Julius Nyerere (II) - Commonplaces

Continuing: The production of wealth, whether by primitive or modern methods, requires three things. First, land. God has given us the land, and it is from the land that we get the raw materials which we reshape to meet our […]

Jake MeadorEconomicsBook ReviewsJulius NyererePan-Africanism

Reading the Pan-Africanists: Julius Nyerere (II) - Commonplaces

Continuing: The production of wealth, whether by primitive or modern methods, requires three things. First, land. God has given us the land, and it is from the land that we get the raw materials which we reshape to meet our […]

Jake MeadorHistoryEconomicsBook Reviews

Positivism and Universal Free Markets - Commonplaces

Gray: The core of Logical Positivism was the development of a scientific worldview. Going further than Saint-Simon and Comte, the Logical Positivists declared that only the verifiable propositions of science have meaning: strictly speaking, religion, metaphysics and morality are nonsense. […]

Jake MeadorHistoryEconomicsBook Reviews

Positivism and Universal Free Markets - Commonplaces

Gray: The core of Logical Positivism was the development of a scientific worldview. Going further than Saint-Simon and Comte, the Logical Positivists declared that only the verifiable propositions of science have meaning: strictly speaking, religion, metaphysics and morality are nonsense. […]

Jake MeadorHistoryBook Reviews

Gray and the Deeply Modern Bolsheviks - Commonplaces

John Gray: The roots of the Soviet system were in the Enlightenment’s most utopian dreams. Lenin never gave up the belief that, after a period of revolutionary terror, the state would be abolished. Trotsky defended the taking and killing of […]

Jake MeadorHistoryBook Reviews

Gray and the Deeply Modern Bolsheviks - Commonplaces

John Gray: The roots of the Soviet system were in the Enlightenment’s most utopian dreams. Lenin never gave up the belief that, after a period of revolutionary terror, the state would be abolished. Trotsky defended the taking and killing of […]

Jake MeadorHistoryCommunities

In Memoriam: Queen Elizabeth II - Commonplaces

In the climactic scene of the 1998 movie The Truman Show, the protagonist, a man named Truman and played by Jim Carrey, has recently discovered that this entire life has been a TV show lived out inside a gigantic dome […]

Jake MeadorHistoryCommunities

In Memoriam: Queen Elizabeth II - Commonplaces

In the climactic scene of the 1998 movie The Truman Show, the protagonist, a man named Truman and played by Jim Carrey, has recently discovered that this entire life has been a TV show lived out inside a gigantic dome […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Christendom in Winter - Commonplaces

There’s a certain sort of mainline Protestant, blessedly rare these days so far as I can tell, who has at times argued that while Scripture might teach that such and such is the Christian teaching on sexuality, we must adapt […]

Jake MeadorChurch

Christendom in Winter - Commonplaces

There’s a certain sort of mainline Protestant, blessedly rare these days so far as I can tell, who has at times argued that while Scripture might teach that such and such is the Christian teaching on sexuality, we must adapt […]