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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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Happiness Drives Sacrifice - Commonplaces

In which Calvin explains the connection between a Christian's happiness and their capacity for sacrifice and service.

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The Abolition of Troy Chatham | Mere Orthodoxy

Those who accuse Wendell Berry of idealizing the past simply aren't reading him closely enough.

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The Sense of Ownership is Always to be Encouraged - Commonplaces

Lewis, writing as Screwtape, on the question of how one uses “their” time:

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Sertillanges on the Intellectual Virtues - Commonplaces

According to Sertillanges, the good and the true flourish in the same soil and so they cannot be ultimately separated.

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The Future is Least Like Eternity - Commonplaces

CSL in Screwtape writing about the relationship between vice and obsession with the future:

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Sertillanges on the Amateur Scholar - Commonplaces

Sertillanges counsels those aspiring scholars who, due to other obligations, think they lack the time to do real scholarship.

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The Jingling Bells of Publicity - Commonplaces

A. D. Sertillanges offers a devastating rebuke of much of the work done by today's "public intellectuals."

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Plough Magazine: The Hole in Wendell Berry's Gospel - Commonplaces

Plough Magazine features a common but wrong-headed critique of Berry's work.

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The Puritan Society - Commonplaces

Early American history scholar Francis Bremer describes the Puritan doctrine of the commonwealth.

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Demonic Rapaciousness - Commonplaces

Russell Moore on the role that money and business play in the decadence of American life.

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Losing a Majority Mindset - Commonplaces

Russell Moore on the consequences that seeing ourselves as a majority has had on American Christians.

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Tradition Doesn't Solve the Problem of Christian Unity - Commonplaces

Philip Schaff explains why appeals to church tradition do not actually provide a sound basis for Christian unity or buffer against divisiveness.