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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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Sacred Season: Episode 8: Holy Week

Sacred Season: Parenting Through the Church Year · Holy Week Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the final week of Lent – often called “Holy Week”

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season: Episode 8: Holy Week

Sacred Season: Parenting Through the Church Year · Holy Week Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the final week of Lent – often called “Holy Week”

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Amazon and Anderson: A Tale of America Coming Apart - Commonplaces

In the aftermath of the news that Amazon has delisted Ryan T. Anderson’s book When Harry Became Sally, a number of people, never to miss an opportunity to enjoy the reactionary right’s favorite pastime, tried to dunk on David French:

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Amazon and Anderson: A Tale of America Coming Apart - Commonplaces

In the aftermath of the news that Amazon has delisted Ryan T. Anderson’s book When Harry Became Sally, a number of people, never to miss an opportunity to enjoy the reactionary right’s favorite pastime, tried to dunk on David French:

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Senator Rubio's Work | Mere Orthodoxy

It sounds good to argue that governmental family aid should be tied to work. But what if work is actually the problem for many Americans?

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Catholicism in the Swamp: A Response to Brandon McGinley's "The Prodigal Church" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Ed. note: This is the third and final response in our symposium on Brandon McGinley’s book The Prodigal Church. The American landscape has been a fertile seedbed historically for a very specific sort of Christianity. Methodism and Baptist expressions of the […]

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Defining "White Evangelical Crap" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of the comments I got in response to Monday’s post was a fairly simple question: “What exactly do you have in mind when you talk about ‘white evangelical crap?'” It’s a fair question. So here’s an attempt at an […]

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After Evangelicalism - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Recently I was talking with a dear friend about how the gift that our particular collegiate experience gave us could be summarized this way: It made it possible for us to disentangle “Christianity” from “stupid American evangelical crap.”

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Reviewing 2020, Starting 2021 - Commonplaces

Inspired by Chris’s post over at his blog, I’m trying something similar here.

Jake Meador

Reviewing 2020, Starting 2021 - Commonplaces

Inspired by Chris’s post over at his blog, I’m trying something similar here.

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Best of Mere Orthodoxy 2020 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

As in previous years, here is a compilation of the best writing we’ve published in 2020. God has been kind to us this year as we are now wrapping up what has been our best year for traffic since the […]

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2020 Eliot Awards - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Since 2017, I’ve made a habit of going back at the end of the year to review and recognize some of my favorite pieces in magazine and web writing from the past 12 months. Inspired by David Brooks’s old Sydney […]