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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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Plough Magazine: The Hole in Wendell Berry's Gospel

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

Jake MeadorChurchEconomics

The Puritan Society

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

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Demonic Rapaciousness

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

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Losing a Majority Mindset

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

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

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Hauerwas on the Politics of Sex

An excerpt from Hauerwas's "Sex in Public" in which he takes on the trend of "open marriages"

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Never Knowing Where You Come From

Berry at his absolute best:

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Religion Makes the Music Sweeter

Thomas Watson explains why Christians ought to be the most cheerful people.

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I Want to be a Burden

This excerpt fromĀ Gilbert MeilaenderĀ is gold:

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Commonplace Books

This is an introduction post for Jake's Commonplaces Book.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

#NeverTrump and President Trump

There are three appropriate reactions to the election of Donald Trump: Prayer, loving local places, and preparing ourselves to live as a Christian minority.

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The Possibilities of Home: An Election Day Protest

Most of us believe that "we have no story except the story we chose when we had no story." But a world that believes such things can never create homes.