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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 MeadorCulture War
Drawing issues of race into our discussions of the Benedict Option will better help us understand the nature of the conflict between Orthodoxy and America.
Jake MeadorEconomics and BusinessFormation
The Kim Davis story doesn't simply raise questions about same-sex marriage licenses, but also about the possibility of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Jake MeadorChurch
Biola University's "Future of the Church" event set to happen next week should be a fascinating discussion between four leading Christian theologians.
Jake MeadorCulture War
Standing behind many of the concrete proposals about the Benedict Option is the reality that most of these proposals are inaccessible to any save the rich.
Jake MeadorCulture WarCurrent PoliticsFormation
The following is less a long-form essay and more a series of semi-connected thoughts concerning the Benedict Option and American Protestantism. I’ve broken them down with headers in hopes of making it easier for readers to pick out which parts […]
Jake Meador
You might summarize Josh Ritter's work as being a lament over a world in which love is not at home.
Jake MeadorTechnologySexualityTinder
The Vanity Fair piece on Tinder and the end of dating has rightly alarmed many readers, but not always for the right reasons.
Jake MeadorBlogging
Despite the ubiquity of the online slang "tl;dr" we at Mere O still want to run long posts that take the time necessary to speak truthfully about an issue.
Jake MeadorPolitics
The third and fourth videos in the Center for Medical Progress’s series on Planned Parenthood dropped this week and the response, at least to the third, has been a bit different from that of the first two weeks. (As I […]
Jake MeadorBlogging
The future of Mere O is bright as we attempt to pioneer a different approach to online publishing built on friendship & indifference toward the news cycle.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
I wrote a piece for the future of evangelicalism series over at Patheos.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
Many young evangelical memoirs offer a number of essential lessons for evangelicals as as well as a few cautionary tales about church life gone wrong.