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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
I think most readers of Wendell Berry, “The Seer” director Laura Dunn included, start with Berry’s non-fiction. They pick up The Unsettling of America or The Art of the Commonplace and go from there. That’s not how I came to Berry. I […]
Jake MeadorEconomics and BusinessCreation Care
Tomorrow I hope to publish a brief review of Laura Dunn’s new film “The Seer.” It’s a unique film and a hard one to pin down because while it is a portrait of Wendell Berry, Berry himself is never actually […]
Jake MeadorLiteratureLord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien's holy fools teach us a simple lesson: If you would save the world, you must love strawberries and cream.
Jake MeadorTelevision
Flipping the script in House of Cards simply reminds viewers of how limited and derivative the script actually is.
Jake MeadorChurchCurrent Politics
An inverted question of the great question facing Jayber Crow is the chief question facing many contemporary conservatives.
Jake MeadorBible
The failure of the literal hermeneutic doesn't mean evangelicals have lost the battle for the Bible.
Jake MeadorDemographicsCurrent Politics
Three brief observations on the question of social conservatism’s relationship to Donald Trump:
Jake Meador
Is the problem with evangelicalism and art a function of our sacramentalism or reflective of deeper cultural shortcomings?
Jake MeadorFormation
We're continuing our review of Sanctified by Grace with a brief review of John Webster's essay on mortification and vivification.
Jake MeadorBibleFormation
We're reviewing Suzanne McDonald's essay on election in our first post with the Sanctified by Grace blog tour.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
One of the long-term interests of Mere Orthodoxy has been trying to revitalize Christian discourse online in ways that move beyond the categories commonly used in conversations about world-view. Though the world-view critics are not always presenting the movement as […]
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
If you're leaving a difficult church, don't look to the internet or online communities to make it better.
