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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 MeadorArt
This piece on Johnny Cash is fantastic: The tragic, doleful Cash had returned. On his own compositions and covers, he sang of a cold-blooded killer haunted by his deeds, a convict known only by the number tattooed on his neck, […]
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From the NYT: For our first date, he took an Uber to my apartment through a winter storm. As the snow fell outside, we sat close on my couch while he talked touchingly about poetry. Two hours in, I was hoping […]
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Jeremy Erickson: Rosaria Butterfield has not to my knowledge spoken recently about whether or not she continues to experience sexual temptation towards other women. People talk about her as a “former lesbian,” and as long as everything is defined in […]
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Don't miss historian Paul Putz on the history of prayer before and after football games.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
Chesterton would set fire to modern civilization because of a poor child's dirty hair. We are reluctant to take such steps in the face of far greater evils.
Jake MeadorBooks
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.
Jake MeadorFeatured
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.
