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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.
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.
Jake MeadorSacred Season
Thanks so much for listening to the fourth episode of Sacred Season! Opening Scripture: Isaiah 60:3 Closing Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20 Original podcast music by Shannon Soderlund Resources Eugene Peterson’s book on the life and call of Jeremiah–Run with the Horses:
Jake MeadorSacred Season
Join Erin and Danielle as they the season of Christmas and how Christ’s incarnation shapes the way we think about and relate to our own bodies.
Jake Meador
In yet another instance of the alarming fall of the Christian right, the Trumpists are violating the third commandment again.
Jake MeadorFeatured
This is our annual list of some of the top essays, reviews, and columns published at Mere O in 2019.
Jake MeadorFeatured
Each year in December we publish our Eliot Awards at Mere Orthodoxy for excellence in long-form writing over the past 12 months.
