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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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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:

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Keep Christianity Weird | Mere Orthodoxy

Weird Christianity, as defined in Tara Isabella Burton's NYT column is a welcome movement in the American church. But dangers to it abound on all sides.

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Busena and Emmanuel's Story: Refugees Seeking Peace

A 19-year-old South Sudanese man is facing imminent deportation over robbery charges he pled guilty to as a 16-year-old. This is his family's story.

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Thinking Christianly About the Ahmaud Arbery Lynching - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Let’s start here. This is what we know about what happened in February in Brunswick GA when Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed according to the New York Times: BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Ahmaud Arbery loved to run. It was how […]

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Liberalism, the American Right, and the Place of Love in Politics

Gregory's "Politics and the Order of Love" is a helpful guide for thinking carefully about key questions in the debates happening on the American right.

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season Episode 7: Pandemic Special

Erin and Danielle offer a few reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic and how we ought to live as Christians, parents, and neighbors in this uncertain season.

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season Episode 7: Pandemic Special

Erin and Danielle offer a few reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic and how we ought to live as Christians, parents, and neighbors in this uncertain season.

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Steel Manning "First Things" | Commonplaces

R. R. Reno's reactionary writing about COVID-19 is misguided and wrong, but we should take the time to understand why rather than simply mock his arguments.