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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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O'Donovan on the Secular - Commonplaces

This pairs very well with yesterday’s excerpt from Dawson. From Desire of the Nations:

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O'Donovan on the Secular - Commonplaces

This pairs very well with yesterday’s excerpt from Dawson. From Desire of the Nations:

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Christopher Dawson on Bourgeois Culture - Commonplaces

From “The Significance of Bolshevism” (written in 1933): Man cannot live in a spiritual void; he needs some fixed social standards and some absolute intellectual principles. Bolshevism at least replaces the spiritual anarchy of bourgeois society by a rigid order […]

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Christopher Dawson on Bourgeois Culture - Commonplaces

From “The Significance of Bolshevism” (written in 1933): Man cannot live in a spiritual void; he needs some fixed social standards and some absolute intellectual principles. Bolshevism at least replaces the spiritual anarchy of bourgeois society by a rigid order […]

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Should Religious Conservatives Aspire to Notoriety? - Commonplaces

As I was publishing my notes on the First Things story, Rod Dreher was typing up another set of thoughts on the matter. Attempting to keep up with Rod is a perilous thing, of course, especially when one has small children […]

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Should Religious Conservatives Aspire to Notoriety? - Commonplaces

As I was publishing my notes on the First Things story, Rod Dreher was typing up another set of thoughts on the matter. Attempting to keep up with Rod is a perilous thing, of course, especially when one has small children […]

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What Can and Can't Be Said About First Things | Commonplaces

The fears over First Things's decline need to account for the broader difficulties facing religious conservative media in the US today.

Jake Meador

What Can and Can't Be Said About First Things | Commonplaces

The fears over First Things's decline need to account for the broader difficulties facing religious conservative media in the US today.

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Gutierrez Against the Doctrine of the Two - Commonplaces

Gutierrez in A Theology of Liberation: The model which distinguishes faith and temporal realities, Church and world, leads to the perception of two missions in the church and to a sharp differentiation between the roles of the priest and the lay […]

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Gutierrez Against the Doctrine of the Two - Commonplaces

Gutierrez in A Theology of Liberation: The model which distinguishes faith and temporal realities, Church and world, leads to the perception of two missions in the church and to a sharp differentiation between the roles of the priest and the lay […]

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O'Donovan on Reading - Commonplaces

Our moment is starved for this sort of intellectual spirit:

Jake Meador

O'Donovan on Reading - Commonplaces

Our moment is starved for this sort of intellectual spirit: