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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 Meador
Conservative neo-liberal defenses of 'liberty' fail because ultimately their definition of liberty is horrifying.
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Any social program that attempts to chart the way through late liberalism that doesn't foreground the goodness of life will fail in its aims.
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Families, churches, and governments are not complete societies in themselves. Nations are. And we ought to belong to those nations as Christian citizens.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
Wiley's book argues for seeing the cosmos as a lively, whole, and integrated place and suggests that households are miniatures of that larger order.
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Jen Pollock Michel's "Surprised by Paradox," is a creative reflection on four key Christian doctrines that helps readers to resist theological reductionism.
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On Facebook my friend Scott Pryor rightly notes that if Dr. Miller failed to define ‘justice’ in his essay at Providence, my post suffers from the lack of a definition of “society.” So here is a stab at answering that question.
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A Christian conception of 'justice' is not reducible to mere equality. Indeed, if you wish to promote justice you cannot have a morally neutral government.
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Though Ahmari obviously lost the debate, French's comments raise major questions as to whether or not he has a positive vision for nations.
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The reality of local political authority? Si. The de facto abolition of the administrative state? No.
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Most deconversion narratives shouldn't surprise us because we are living through a time of widespread decline and failure in the American church.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
Brad East has what is perhaps my favorite response to the book so far, not least because it is one of the more critical responses, for which I am thankful. You can read the whole thing over at Resident Theologian.
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Every society will be ordered to a higher good. If political systems themselves do not participate in the work, it will simply be taken over by capital.
