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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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The Opining Life

If the one necessary thing is to contemplate God and prepare to meet him, how would that affect the way we write or think in public?

Jake MeadorReading

Bible and Theology Reading Plans for 2025

Plan your Bible and theology reading for this year with these reading plans.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

Best of 2024: Reflections on the Evangelical Fracturing, Ten Years In

The reformed charismatic church planting network Acts 29 serves as a model for the evangelical fracturing and can offer us many valuable lessons.

Jake MeadorEvangelism

Best of 2024: The Evangelistic Shift

Something has shifted regarding which social groups seem more open to Christian faith. What drove that shift and how should we respond as Christians?

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The Last Ten Years and the Next Ten

We're building the preemminent Protestant ideas magazine. Will you join us?

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Best of Mere Orthodoxy, 2024

Here is the best work we published at Mere Orthodoxy in 2024.

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2024 Eliot Awards and Observations on the State of Print Media

It's time to honor another year of excellent journalistic writing with this year's 'Eliot Awards.'

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Do We Even Want Peace on Earth?

In a day of ever-growing partisan rage and enemy hatred, I wonder if we even want Jesus to come, the one who will bring peace to earth.

Jake MeadorChurchFormation

Constructing Toward Catholicity

I've known many people who left one evangelical church and found another, or who simply leave altogether. I have known few who leave and find catholicity.

Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism

Evangelical Catholicity and American Church Futures

If the American church is to take advantage of the opportunities in front of us we will need to shift our ways of thinking about several key issues.

Jake MeadorPolitical Theology

Civic Republicanism and the Magisterial Reformation

The civic republican tradition is partially downstream of magisterial Protestantism, yet it is today largely forgotten by many.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

The Doug Election and America After the Great Dechurching

The Doug election is a fascinating reset of America's socio-political context and offers exciting possibilities to politically marginal evangelicals.