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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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Two Questions After Reading Jonathan Leeman's "How the Nations Rage"

Jonathan Leeman's new book has much practical wisdom, but the underlying political imagination leaves something to be desired.

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Hospitality requires skill. - Commonplaces

Hospitality is place-making with the goal of serving others. Creating a place like that requires patience, time, and cultivating a number of skills.

Jake Meador

Hospitality requires skill. - Commonplaces

Hospitality is place-making with the goal of serving others. Creating a place like that requires patience, time, and cultivating a number of skills.

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3 Notes on the Kevin Willamson Firing - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Yesterday Kevin Williamson’s extremely short time at The Atlantic came to an abrupt end. There’s been no shortage of angst about it amongst conservatives and, thus, no shortage of panicky responses from the right and “he deserved it,” pieces from the […]

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Longing and Hope in the Shadowlands | Mere Orthodoxy

Christians should not be surprised by unexpected resurrection. We should see in such things a sign of the coming resurrection and a testament to God's love.

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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.

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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.