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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.

Jake Meador

Book Review: Building the Benedict Option by Leah Libresco

Leah Libresco's book does two things extremely well: Model a cheerful Christian piety and provide practical tips on organizing Christian community.

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He Saw Our Darkness - Commonplaces

This piece on Johnny Cash is fantastic: The tragic, doleful Cash had returned. On his own compositions and covers, he sang of a cold-blooded killer haunted by his deeds, a convict known only by the number tattooed on his neck, […]

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He Saw Our Darkness - Commonplaces

This piece on Johnny Cash is fantastic: The tragic, doleful Cash had returned. On his own compositions and covers, he sang of a cold-blooded killer haunted by his deeds, a convict known only by the number tattooed on his neck, […]

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Consent and Trust - Commonplaces

From the NYT: For our first date, he took an Uber to my apartment through a winter storm. As the snow fell outside, we sat close on my couch while he talked touchingly about poetry. Two hours in, I was hoping […]

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Consent and Trust - Commonplaces

From the NYT: For our first date, he took an Uber to my apartment through a winter storm. As the snow fell outside, we sat close on my couch while he talked touchingly about poetry. Two hours in, I was hoping […]

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Rosaria Butterfield and Evading the Issues - Commonplaces

Jeremy Erickson: Rosaria Butterfield has not to my knowledge spoken recently about whether or not she continues to experience sexual temptation towards other women. People talk about her as a “former lesbian,” and as long as everything is defined in […]

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Rosaria Butterfield and Evading the Issues - Commonplaces

Jeremy Erickson: Rosaria Butterfield has not to my knowledge spoken recently about whether or not she continues to experience sexual temptation towards other women. People talk about her as a “former lesbian,” and as long as everything is defined in […]

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Football and the Political Act of Prayer - Commonplaces

Don't miss historian Paul Putz on the history of prayer before and after football games.

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Football and the Political Act of Prayer - Commonplaces

Don't miss historian Paul Putz on the history of prayer before and after football games.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

Setting Fire to Modern Civilization: On Abuse and Institutions

Chesterton would set fire to modern civilization because of a poor child's dirty hair. We are reluctant to take such steps in the face of far greater evils.

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

The Hedonism of Reading Good Books - Commonplaces

E. J. Hutchinson at TAC: “I hate to read new books.” So begins William Hazlitt’s essay “On Reading Old Books.” The title will remind readers of C.S. Lewis’s similarly named but much more well known essay “On the Reading of […]

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

The Hedonism of Reading Good Books - Commonplaces

E. J. Hutchinson at TAC: “I hate to read new books.” So begins William Hazlitt’s essay “On Reading Old Books.” The title will remind readers of C.S. Lewis’s similarly named but much more well known essay “On the Reading of […]