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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 MeadorChurch
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 […]
Jake MeadorFeatured
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:
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 […]
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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 MeadorBooks
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 […]
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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.
