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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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Conservatism, Out of Decadence | Mere Orthodoxy

What we need is a political vision to lead America out of immanence and back to transcendence. Two midwestern senators have rival visions of how to do that.

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Children, Culture Wars, and Christian Societies | Commonplaces

Children are not soldiers to help us win culture wars. Even so, it is nearly impossible to speak Christianly about the family without attracting ridicule.

Jake MeadorFamily

Children, Culture Wars, and Christian Societies | Commonplaces

Children are not soldiers to help us win culture wars. Even so, it is nearly impossible to speak Christianly about the family without attracting ridicule.

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7 Notes on Bostock v Clayton County & the Future of Social Conservatism

We should not overstate the risk to Christian conservatives following the Bostock ruling, but neither should we act as if all is well in our movement.

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Summarizing the PCA Committee Report on Human Sexuality

This piece is a brief summary of the PCA's AIC report on sexuality

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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:

Jake MeadorHistory

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.