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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.

Jake MeadorCultureJournalSpring 2025

Concerning Fr. Edmund Campion

The tragic story of the martyrdom of Fr Edmund Campion is a good place to begin in thinking about religious liberty.

Jake MeadorTheologyFormation

Reading Historic Theology Like an Adult

It is no dishonor to our fathers in the faith to extend their thought or dissent from it, nor is it an honor to them to agree unthinkingly.

Jake MeadorChurch

Character, Competence, and the Life of the Presbyterian Church in America

The Bryan Chappell situation is a scandal in itself, but is also indicative of deeper problems that have long plagued the Presbyterian Church in America.

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

In Memoriam: Timothy Keller (1950-2023) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Road goes ever on and on Out from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, Let others follow it who can! Let them a journey new begin, But I at last with weary feet […]

Jake MeadorCultureCurrent Politics

How to Interview Political Revolutionaries

Interviewing political revolutionaries who believe morally repugnant things is not wrong. Making no mention of those repugnant beliefs is though.

Jake MeadorFormation

Gratitude

Jake Meador reflects on TGC25 and shares his gratitude for the fidelity of The Gospel Coalition's first generation of senior leaders.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Evangelical Political Life After the Religious Right

The religious right is well and truly dead. So what comes next?

Jake MeadorFamilyCurrent Politics

The Rotten Fruit of Obergefell: On the Kelly Loving Act

The Kelly Loving Act currently being debated in Colorado is the predictable consequence of marriage revisionism.

Jake MeadorFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Authenticity is Actually Kind of Boring: On 'Daredevil: Born Again'

'Daredevil: Born Again' brought back some of the characters and action of the Netflix series, but it lost the moral heart that made the original great.

Jake MeadorChurch

Belonging to a Church in a World with Weak Traditions

Three dominant sub-groups now define the traditionally white Protestant churches in America. And they're all good at annoying each other.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryCurrent Politics

Challenges to Liberalism in the Post-Trump Era

Key stressors pressing the American Right and Left have pushed both blocs into complex and frequently hostile relationships to political liberalism.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

Totalitarianism in the Shadow of Decadence

The events in the Oval Office last Friday concern more than the fate of the Ukrainian nation; they concern the character of the American nation as well.