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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 MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
The complementarian movement may not outlast its founding generation, but the underlying issues it attempted to address have not gone anywhere.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Much of Ben Sasse's work has been dedicated to preserving principled liberalism. But the failure of his recent bill shows why that may not be possible.
Jake Meador
It is inherent to sin’s nature to rationalize itself. This is hardly a new insight. After all, the almost immediate response of Adam and Eve in the aftermath of the world’s first sin was to justify themselves by shifting the […]
Jake MeadorEconomicshealth
If you haven’t yet, please do read Anne Helen Peterson’s excellent Buzzfeed essay on millennials and burnout. My first reaction to the essay was to agree with nearly every word of it and pass it on to others. But after […]
Jake Meador
The good folks over at The Weekly Standard deserve a ton of credit for their fast work in relaunching a new publication, The Bulwark, in the aftermath of their untimely shuttering last month. What follows will be mostly critical so I want […]
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Derek has a good post offering some needed pushback to the growing usage of ‘sacramental’ language amongst some evangelicals. The problem, in short, is that sacraments are a very particular thing with a particular function in the Christian life and […]
Jake MeadorBooks
One of the things you will become aware of very quickly when you begin writing a book is that you know nothing. (The next phase is becoming aware of the fact that you are a fraud.)
Jake MeadorFeaturedBlogging
We ran our list of the best feature writing in 2018 yesterday. Today I wanted to recap the written work we have done at Mere O this year. Due almost entirely to changes with Facebook’s algorithm, our traffic numbers are […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedBlogging
The 2018 Eliot Awards are now live with essays from theologians, essayists, and feature writers ranging across many different topics.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Christians should not opt out of the work of partisan politics, but should locate that narrow work within a broader Christian political witness.
Jake MeadorFeatured
Rigney's book is an ideal introduction and summary of the key themes in Lewis's work and a remarkable achievement in summarizing a prolific, complex author.
Jake Meador
Leah Libresco's book does two things extremely well: Model a cheerful Christian piety and provide practical tips on organizing Christian community.
