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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 MeadorFeatured
“Hello Joshua. I really appreciate the work you do through your podcast. I need a little help if possible.” That’s the start of a listener email that Josh Heavin, writer and co-producer of our podcast “Passages,” received a month ago. […]
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As is our custom, we’re going to be doing some year-end wrap ups over the next couple weeks. I’ll have this year’s Eliot Awards up later in the week, God-willing. For now, here’s a run down of the best of Mere […]
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If your background is anything like mine, you both grew up in the church and grew up tremendously ignorant of much of what the church has said and thought throughout her history. I remember realizing with a shock while I […]
Jake Meador
If your background is anything like mine, you both grew up in the church and grew up tremendously ignorant of much of what the church has said and thought throughout her history. I remember realizing with a shock while I […]
Jake MeadorFeatured
Mere Orthodoxy was founded in 2005 as a blog run by several recent graduates from the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University in Los Angeles. It was a space where these friends, which included our founding editor Matthew Lee Anderson, […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
We now seem to be at the end of a debate that has roiled the American Right for the past several years, or so says Sohrab Ahmari, one of the chief figures in that debate. But before we get to […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
Last summer, the recently retired minister Ray Ortlund announced that he had been appointed a canon theologian, a teaching office in the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA). That a recently retired minister who held a PhD and had taught […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedJournalJournal 1
This is the introductory letter that ran with our inaugural print edition, which reached subscribers last week. Subscribe now to receive future issues. In order to maximize our reach in these early days of the print edition, I will be […]
Jake MeadorSacred Season
Sacred Season: Ordinary Time Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the sanctification of our work, our calling to make disciples, and abiding in Christ.
Jake MeadorSacred Season
Sacred Season: Ordinary Time Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the sanctification of our work, our calling to make disciples, and abiding in Christ.
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
In the 2013 book Aliens in the Promised Land, editor Anthony Bradley along with a number of other people of color who have served in predominantly white evangelical institutions explain in great detail why, as the subtitle has it, “minority […]
Jake MeadorFamilyChurch
I don’t know a way to start this without some level of personal detail, but I’ll try to be brief: I grew up in a church somewhere right of John MacArthur which, these days, things MacArthur is a progressive. If you […]
