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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.
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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 MeadorEconomics
Somewhat improbably, the reformist Republican critique of market-states may actually be more trenchant than the moderate Democratic critique.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Running a leftist campaign may not be electoral suicide; it may be a reasoned choice based on a belief that political persuasion is still possible.
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
The Reformation was not only concerned with theological reform, but also moral reform. It called a decadent church, choking on its own power, to repent.
Jake Meador
I’m co-teaching a class at my church on the sacraments right now. One benefit is that I have a reason to go back over the old reformed confessions. Here is the Belgic Confession (1561) on the Eucharist:
Jake Meador
I’m co-teaching a class at my church on the sacraments right now. One benefit is that I have a reason to go back over the old reformed confessions. Here is the Belgic Confession (1561) on the Eucharist:
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Schmitz argues that democracies force their members to choose between liberty and Christianity. Historic Protestantism says this is a false dichotomy.
Jake Meador
Conservative neo-liberal defenses of 'liberty' fail because ultimately their definition of liberty is horrifying.
Jake Meador
Conservative neo-liberal defenses of 'liberty' fail because ultimately their definition of liberty is horrifying.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Any social program that attempts to chart the way through late liberalism that doesn't foreground the goodness of life will fail in its aims.
Jake MeadorFeatured
Families, churches, and governments are not complete societies in themselves. Nations are. And we ought to belong to those nations as Christian citizens.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
Wiley's book argues for seeing the cosmos as a lively, whole, and integrated place and suggests that households are miniatures of that larger order.
Jake Meador
Jen Pollock Michel's "Surprised by Paradox," is a creative reflection on four key Christian doctrines that helps readers to resist theological reductionism.
