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Jake Meador

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

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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Introducing Mere Orthodoxy #1: Fall 2021 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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Sacred Season: Episode 11: Ordinary Time

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: Episode 11: Ordinary Time

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.

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Racial Reconciliation and the Queen of the Sciences - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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Deconstructing in the Ruins - Commonplaces

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 […]

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Deconstructing in the Ruins - Commonplaces

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 […]

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On Whether Football is Coming Home - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It would seem that football is not, in fact, coming home.

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Sacred Season Episode 10: Pentecost

Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives as Christians and the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives as moms.

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season Episode 10: Pentecost

Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives as Christians and the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives as moms.

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Book Excerpt: Either Way, We'll Be All Right by Eric Tonjes - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The cross is not simply about rescue but also about restoration. The cross is not primarily about escape from some future punishment but rather about healing our relationship with God. Christ’s death brings us back into communion with our Creator: […]

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Betraying Tyndale: Notes Against Propaganda - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I think this essay is maybe about my parents, particularly my mother, but it’s also about what they taught me and how that relates to the turmoil currently roiling America’s public life. My mom’s formal education ended with a high-school […]

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Sacred Season: Episode 9: Eastertide

Join Erin and Danielle as they talk the glories of Easter and Eastertide and what we can learn from this season about sanctification and sabbathing well.