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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 MeadorFeaturedCulture War
One of the saddest consequences of the culture war is that it has managed to make people boring. The culture war has made us predictable, even if individual people are anything but. The libertarian online troll is in real life […]
Jake MeadorChurch
If you haven’t read Catherine Addington’s post on the main page today, please do.
Jake MeadorChurchCommunities
There’s a piece over at TGC I want to flag for a couple reasons. That said, before I get into some reservations about it, I wanted to note that the author is a pastor in Fargo, ND and he’s reporting […]
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
The prayer of the scientist if he prayed, which is not likely: Lord, grant that my discovery may increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant […]
Jake MeadorChurch
When we misrepresent, ignore, or dismiss alleged assault victims, we do great damage not only to the victim, but to many others as well.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
A man said "if it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes one to abuse a child." That sums up the reasons for our culture's turn against the faith.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Last week provided two more examples of what is an increasingly hard-to-dispute fact: There will be little mercy in the post-2016 United States.
Jake MeadorChurch
Brief notes on this question: First, Rod is correct in his response to Walther in which he notes the extremely American characteristics of American Catholicism. Moreover, this is a trend that goes back some time—at least to JFK’s awful speech […]
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
In a world and economy as hostile to marriage as ours, things like the Pence Rule are understandable attempts to protect marriage.
Jake Meador
When relationships are ephemeral and optional, disagreements dominate. When they are anchored in something tangible, principled compromise becomes possible.
Jake MeadorFeatured
Deneen's critics who focus on policy questions are missing the point of Deneen's book, which is that the world responsible for those policies is failing.
Jake MeadorEconomics
The Guardian's story on financial fraud on Instagram is about way more than just technology and finance; it's about poverty, loneliness, and desperation.
