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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 MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
As is my rule with these things, I’ve taken a few days to hold off on publishing anything on Charlottesville. That said, it’s been a couple days now and for several reasons I think it’s a good time to post […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedEconomics and Business
In his response to Andrew Strain, Joe Carter noted that one of Strain’s problems is the assumption that “some other people—rather than those directly engaged in the market activity—should decide what is best for those involved.” Well, yes—at least in […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedEconomics and Business
Though socialism may not be quite the right word, there is an undeniable interest in left wing economic views amongst many younger orthodox Christians.
Jake MeadorFeaturedBlogging
We're excited to announce a few new projects and a new funding strategy to hopefully help grow the site by allowing us to pay our regular contributors.
Jake MeadorFeatured
17776 is an amazing, confusing, and fun piece of immersive fiction. But with the delight of reading it I also feel sad about the world it depicts.
Jake MeadorFeatured
A couple weeks ago I was reviewing a draft of Kayla Snow’s excellent review of The Long, Long Life of Trees and we began talking about the historically unprecedented ignorance of place that defines many in the west today. A book like […]
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There is no shortage of practical wisdom here, but the ideology that shapes the book is destructive of anything save individual liberty and self-expression.
Jake MeadorBooksGina Dalfonzo
Many books are currently being published about how churches can effectively include minority groups. It's an admirable but potentially wrong-headed move.
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Chapter five is, so far, the most contemporary essay in Du Bois’s book. In it, he considers the city of Atlanta and what it says about the future of both African Americans and the South more broadly considered. He begins […]
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
The trouble with "Reclaiming Hope" is that, strangely, it is a deeply pietistic book about how Christians should work in politics.
Jake MeadorFamilyFeatured
Father's Day reminds us of the joy that can grow in a home. But what happens in places where home is a reality experienced only occasionally and by a few?
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
You’ll have to forgive my sounding like something of a broken record by this point, but I couldn’t let this news pass without flagging it for Mere O readers:
