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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 MeadorBook Reviews
E. J. Hutchinson at TAC: “I hate to read new books.” So begins William Hazlitt’s essay “On Reading Old Books.” The title will remind readers of C.S. Lewis’s similarly named but much more well known essay “On the Reading of […]
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Chris Krycho: For the last several months, I’ve been experiencing what I initially described as mild burnout. I’m not sure how mild it is at this point, but I’m definitely still experiencing it. As a result, I’m still thinking about how to mitigate […]
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From The Guardian: Once, when I was staying in Houston, Texas, my host was showing me round her house. It included a mighty fireplace. “How often does it get cold enough to light a fire?” I asked, as what little I […]
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The new reading environment built around the social stream corrodes the minds of writer and reader alike.
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Tyler Cowen thinks it is #actually good to own things instead of pay monthly subscription fees. He's almost certainly right.
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Sacasas: It is not just the technological tools available to us that deform us; it is also the desire for attention we have which these tools encourage.
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Alan Noble's new book succeeds at being both a description of the world as we experience it and a set of proposals for how Christians should respond.
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The reporting is clear that Cardinal McCarrick sexually harassed young men. So why do so many in the church and the media keep lying about it?
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Johanna Finegan's pre-conference talk is a concise and comprehensive rebuttal to many of the criticisms of the Revoice conference.
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One of the things I am increasingly convinced of is the fact that many, many American young people are actually quite concerned with matters of spirituality and religious life. The much-discussed “rise of the nones” is less about the rejection of […]
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The sterile style overtaking many American businesses and offices today might be "cool" as defined by passing fads, but it is profoundly inhuman as well.
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Matt Walther has a piece over at The Week which I, perhaps predictably, am feeling really torn about. Here’s Walther’s argument:
