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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 MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

The Tedium of Worldview Analysis | Mere Orthodoxy

Christians should be relentlessly serious people who care about truth wherever they find it. In contrast, Christian worldviewism wants only to win a debate.

Jake MeadorFamilyFeatured

The Problem with Surrogacy: A 1400 Word Sketch | Mere Orthodoxy

Last week we talked about the difficulty of discussing surrogacy as a Christian journalist. Now we explain why Christians should not practice surrogacy.

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The Grace of Good Questions - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Francis Schaeffer used to say that if he had an hour to tell someone about Jesus, he would spend the first 55 minutes of that hour listening. I thought about this a couple weekends ago when I was able to […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

The Evangelical Center After Billy Graham | Mere Orthodoxy

Evangelicalism after Graham will not be a third way centrism set between fundamentalism and modernism, but will hold to a principled, reformational center.

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

The Parting of Ways Amongst Younger Christians | Mere Orthodoxy

Boomer evangelicals and Catholics bequeathed to us the legacy of ECT. But that legacy appears increasingly irrelevant in the dying days of liberalism.

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Announcing the Household Worship Project | Mere Orthodoxy

Mere O's latest venture is a project intended to help reinvigorate the practice of regular household worship.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

In Defense of Josh Hawley | Mere Orthodoxy

Josh Hawley's remarks about the sexual revolution are fairly banal and similar to an extremely common view that exists across the political spectrum.

Jake Meador

Book Review: Confident Pluralism by John Inazu | Mere Orthodoxy

Inazu's book offers a compelling case for the legal norms needed in a pluralistic society, but it isn't, as some have said, a hopeful alternative to Dreher.

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Three Notes on Women Professors and Seminary | Mere Orthodoxy

Debates like the one prompted by Piper's comments are inevitable and irresolvable until we get better at institution building and dogmatic theology.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture War

Liberalism and Personal Formation | Mere Orthodoxy

So far the conservative response to the radtrads has ignored the most important point of the debate: Liberalism is very bad at producing liberals.

Jake MeadorHistory

Notes on Edgardo Montara from a Protestant Onlooker | Mere Orthodoxy

The outrage that followed First Things's publication of an essay on the Mortara affair has, sadly and predictably, focused on the wrong questions.

Jake Meador

The Politics of the Last Jedi | Mere Orthodoxy

If "The Last Jedi" has a weakness it's that too eagerly embraces a politics obsessed with power. But if that's a weakness it is hardly unique to this film.