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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 Meador
In his book The World Beyond Your Head Matthew Crawford uses the idea of a jig to explain how a carpenter might go about accomplishing a task more quickly and efficiently. Jigs are a kind of hack, a method for doing […]
Jake Meador
In his book The World Beyond Your Head Matthew Crawford uses the idea of a jig to explain how a carpenter might go about accomplishing a task more quickly and efficiently. Jigs are a kind of hack, a method for doing […]
Jake MeadorFeatured
To suggest that our nation's oppressed minorities have been faithful liberals, as Adam Serwer recently did, is a dramatic bit of historic revisionism.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
The use of power to advance defined ends is inherent in any political system. The post-liberals merely want to be honest about that and advance good ends.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
To coincide with the launch of "In Search of the Common Good" we're running a companion kit drawing for people who read and review the book.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
To coincide with the launch of "In Search of the Common Good" we're running a companion kit drawing for people who read and review the book.
Jake MeadorFeatured
One of the most important explorations of political theology in recent years is Andrew Willard Jones’s book Before Church and State. Jones’s argument is that our modern social norms, including our political system, are built on the idea that conflict […]
Jake MeadorPoliticsFeatured
Matthew Lee Anderson recently delivered three lectures at Biola University on justice which are now available online for viewing.
Jake Meador
That is the claim made by Dan Hugger in a recent post at the Acton Institute. Hugger, picking up on the French-Ahmari debate, argued that my framing of the debate—that liberalism ultimately fails because it both relies on other social […]
Jake Meador
That is the claim made by Dan Hugger in a recent post at the Acton Institute. Hugger, picking up on the French-Ahmari debate, argued that my framing of the debate—that liberalism ultimately fails because it both relies on other social […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism
What happens when a community becomes so large that it is not able to do the very thing it was originally intended to do?
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Rusty Reno is right to say that social conservatives should lead. But do we have the will to do so? And will we lead in a way that actually leads to life?
