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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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The Latest Controversy in the PCA’s Missouri Presbytery, Explained

Last weekend the Chapel, a secular arts venue owned and operated by Memorial Presbyterian Church, a PCA congregation in St Louis, MO, hosted Transluminate.

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Nations and Nation-States: A Question for National Conservatives - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We need a theory of power to support conservative localism. But that theory cannot consist of simply pretending that nation-states are an unambiguous good.

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Notes on Shepherding the Spiritual Cynic | Commonplaces

Christians who hope to be of some use as neighbors must become comfortable shepherding the spiritual cynic who has seen great evil done in Jesus's name.

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Notes on Shepherding the Spiritual Cynic | Commonplaces

Christians who hope to be of some use as neighbors must become comfortable shepherding the spiritual cynic who has seen great evil done in Jesus's name.

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season Episode 6: Lent

Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the penitential season of Lent and the role of spiritual disciplines in orienting our hearts to the Lord.

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season Episode 6: Lent

Join Erin and Danielle as they discuss the penitential season of Lent and the role of spiritual disciplines in orienting our hearts to the Lord.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Key Question the Sanders Campaign Must Answer | Mere Orthodoxy

By the end of the Democratic primary we are likely going to be far closer to knowing if ours is a revolutionary age or merely an era of stable decadence.

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Honesty and Extremism | Commonplaces

When a movement's intellectuals can't even manage to be intellectually honest and become concerned exclusively with power, that movement has lost itself.

Jake Meador

Honesty and Extremism | Commonplaces

When a movement's intellectuals can't even manage to be intellectually honest and become concerned exclusively with power, that movement has lost itself.

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The Freedom of the Trad - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Freddie De Boer has a typically sharp post up at his personal blog analyzing the ‘trad’ trend in some (mostly culturally elite) social circles. Do read the whole thing, but this graf gets at the main critique nicely: Here’s the […]

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Notes on Christianity Today's Impeachment Editorial | Mere Orthodoxy

Many of the responses to Mark Galli's editorial are silly, but one in particular was very good and worth considering at greater length.

Jake MeadorSacred Season

Sacred Season: Episode 4: Epiphany

Thanks so much for listening to the fourth episode of Sacred Season! Opening Scripture: Isaiah 60:3 Closing Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20 Original podcast music by Shannon Soderlund Resources Eugene Peterson’s book on the life and call of Jeremiah–Run with the Horses: