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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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Tom Holland's Three Options for the West

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.

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Becoming the Given: Christian Belonging After the Therapeutic

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.

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Why You Can't Dodge Theological Questions

Theology is ultimately doxological; it is intended to guide Christian believers toward the praise of God. So you cannot permanently ignore hard questions.

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Decadence, Joe Rogan, and Non-Anxious Authority - Commonplaces

I’m an old-cohort millennial or, if you like, part of the Oregon Trail generation. I graduated college in 2010. At that time, I was definitely aware of transgenderism, for example, because I was an English major and I worked at […]

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Decadence, Joe Rogan, and Non-Anxious Authority - Commonplaces

I’m an old-cohort millennial or, if you like, part of the Oregon Trail generation. I graduated college in 2010. At that time, I was definitely aware of transgenderism, for example, because I was an English major and I worked at […]

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The American Church in the Fourth Republic

The problems facing the church at the dawn of America's fourth republic are unlike those that have confronted her at earlier moments in American history.

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The Reality of Fear and the Presence of Reality: Suffering and Cultural Renewal - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

These are the remarks I gave as part of my plenary lecture at this year’s Eighth Day Institute Symposium in Wichita, KS. You can learn more about EDI’s work and sign up to support them as a member by visiting […]

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Concerning Fr. Edmund Campion

The tragic story of the martyrdom of Fr Edmund Campion is a good place to begin in thinking about religious liberty.

Jake MeadorCultureJournalSpring 2025

Concerning Fr. Edmund Campion

The tragic story of the martyrdom of Fr Edmund Campion is a good place to begin in thinking about religious liberty.

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Reading Historic Theology Like an Adult

It is no dishonor to our fathers in the faith to extend their thought or dissent from it, nor is it an honor to them to agree unthinkingly.

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Character, Competence, and the Life of the Presbyterian Church in America

The Bryan Chappell situation is a scandal in itself, but is also indicative of deeper problems that have long plagued the Presbyterian Church in America.

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In Memoriam: Timothy Keller (1950-2023) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Road goes ever on and on Out from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, Let others follow it who can! Let them a journey new begin, But I at last with weary feet […]