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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 MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
One of the most frequent, annoying arguments in religious journalism concerns the definition of an "evangelical." To solve the problem, we created a quiz.
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22,000 Alabamians opted not to vote for either candidate last night. It's quite plausible that principled pro-life voters cost the GOP a senate seat.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
It’s election day in Alabama. If recent electoral trends are a reliable metric, today’s election is probably a preview of what we can expect to see more and more often in the years to come: a wildly unqualified Republican candidate […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
The tragedy of D. C. McAllister's Roy Moore defense is not that her argument is dumb, though it is. It's that she doesn't even mean what she's saying.
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So Kevin Spacey is in the news this week for what increasingly appears to be a Weinstein- or Cosby-level history of sexual abuse. In Spacey’s case, however, his typical target was allegedly young boys he met through his work as […]
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Today marks the 500th anniversary of the day that Martin Luther (might have) nailed his famous 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg. While the historicity of that famous event is in dispute, what is not in question is […]
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A brief note on the furor surrounding Patheos’s decision to add Mark Driscoll to their Evangelical channel: One of the common responses when something like this hits the press is for evangelicals, self-lacerating sorts that we are, to say that […]
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D. L. Mayfield's "Assimilate or Go Home," is a strong example of a young evangelical conversion narrative which is both prophetic and penitent in style.
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
The PCA has a number of problems. But "Kellerism" isn't the issue. And if we aren't careful, the critiques of Kellerism will become a far larger issue.
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From The Cut: A lot of the wellness movement addresses aspects of our lives previously considered basic and fundamental, like breathing or sleep. This spring, Arianna Huffington celebrated the tenth anniversary of what she calls her “great blessing.” On April 6, 2007, […]
Jake MeadorHannah Anderson
Hannah Anderson: We may abdicate positions of power, give away extra material goods, and move into smaller homes. But if we do it out of guilt (and make sure to broadcast our sacrifices loudly enough), our experience of the world […]
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Sibbes: There is never a holy sigh, never a tear we shed, which is lost. And as every grace increases by exercise of itself, so does the grace of prayer. By prayer we learn to pray. So, likewise, we should […]
