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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 MeadorSacred Season
Erin and Danielle offer a few reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic and how we ought to live as Christians, parents, and neighbors in this uncertain season.
Jake Meador
R. R. Reno's reactionary writing about COVID-19 is misguided and wrong, but we should take the time to understand why rather than simply mock his arguments.
Jake MeadorFeatured
R. R. Reno's "Return of the Strong Gods" makes a devastating critique of Popper's open society but is insufficiently critical of the strong gods themselves.
Jake MeadorChurch
I’ve been really delighted with how well my home church in Lincoln has responded to the coronavirus. When a friend of mine asked about it on Twitter last night, I replied to her tweet: Has anyone's church moved to virtual […]
Jake Meador
Last weekend the Chapel, a secular arts venue owned and operated by Memorial Presbyterian Church, a PCA congregation in St Louis, MO, hosted Transluminate.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
We need a theory of power to support conservative localism. But that theory cannot consist of simply pretending that nation-states are an unambiguous good.
Jake MeadorChurch
Christians who hope to be of some use as neighbors must become comfortable shepherding the spiritual cynic who has seen great evil done in Jesus's name.
Jake MeadorSacred Season
Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the penitential season of Lent and the role of spiritual disciplines in orienting our hearts to the Lord.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
By the end of the Democratic primary we are likely going to be far closer to knowing if ours is a revolutionary age or merely an era of stable decadence.
Jake Meador
When a movement's intellectuals can't even manage to be intellectually honest and become concerned exclusively with power, that movement has lost itself.
Jake MeadorFeatured
Freddie De Boer has a typically sharp post up at his personal blog analyzing the ‘trad’ trend in some (mostly culturally elite) social circles. Do read the whole thing, but this graf gets at the main critique nicely: Here’s the […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
Many of the responses to Mark Galli's editorial are silly, but one in particular was very good and worth considering at greater length.
