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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 MeadorFamilyFeatured
Last week we talked about the difficulty of discussing surrogacy as a Christian journalist. Now we explain why Christians should not practice surrogacy.
Jake MeadorFeaturedFormation
Francis Schaeffer used to say that if he had an hour to tell someone about Jesus, he would spend the first 55 minutes of that hour listening. I thought about this a couple weekends ago when I was able to […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
Evangelicalism after Graham will not be a third way centrism set between fundamentalism and modernism, but will hold to a principled, reformational center.
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
Boomer evangelicals and Catholics bequeathed to us the legacy of ECT. But that legacy appears increasingly irrelevant in the dying days of liberalism.
Jake MeadorDevotionalFeatured
Mere O's latest venture is a project intended to help reinvigorate the practice of regular household worship.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
Josh Hawley's remarks about the sexual revolution are fairly banal and similar to an extremely common view that exists across the political spectrum.
Jake Meador
Inazu's book offers a compelling case for the legal norms needed in a pluralistic society, but it isn't, as some have said, a hopeful alternative to Dreher.
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
Debates like the one prompted by Piper's comments are inevitable and irresolvable until we get better at institution building and dogmatic theology.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture War
So far the conservative response to the radtrads has ignored the most important point of the debate: Liberalism is very bad at producing liberals.
Jake MeadorHistory
The outrage that followed First Things's publication of an essay on the Mortara affair has, sadly and predictably, focused on the wrong questions.
Jake Meador
If "The Last Jedi" has a weakness it's that too eagerly embraces a politics obsessed with power. But if that's a weakness it is hardly unique to this film.
Jake MeadorFeatured
For the longest time one of my favorite year-end rituals has been combing through David Brooks’s Sydney Award winners for the year to find which ones I’d missed and to re-read favorites from earlier in the year.
