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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 2017 Eliot Awards - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

For the longest time one of my favorite year-end rituals has been combing through David Brooks’s Sydney Award winners for the year to find which ones I’d missed and to re-read favorites from earlier in the year.

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Quiz: Are you an evangelical? | Mere Orthodoxy

One of the most frequent, annoying arguments in religious journalism concerns the definition of an "evangelical." To solve the problem, we created a quiz.

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The Principled Pro-Life Vote | Mere Orthodoxy

22,000 Alabamians opted not to vote for either candidate last night. It's quite plausible that principled pro-life voters cost the GOP a senate seat.

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Five Theses on Voting and the Alabama Senate Election - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

It’s election day in Alabama. If recent electoral trends are a reliable metric, today’s election is probably a preview of what we can expect to see more and more often in the years to come: a wildly unqualified Republican candidate […]

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The Rot on the Right: Answering McAllister on Moore | Mere Orthodoxy

The tragedy of D. C. McAllister's Roy Moore defense is not that her argument is dumb, though it is. It's that she doesn't even mean what she's saying.

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Sex in Movies: Was John Piper Right All Along? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

So Kevin Spacey is in the news this week for what increasingly appears to be a Weinstein- or Cosby-level history of sexual abuse. In Spacey’s case, however, his typical target was allegedly young boys he met through his work as […]

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How to Celebrate the Reformation - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Today marks the 500th anniversary of the day that Martin Luther (might have) nailed his famous 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg. While the historicity of that famous event is in dispute, what is not in question is […]

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Ecclesiology and the Zombie Pastor Problem - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A brief note on the furor surrounding Patheos’s decision to add Mark Driscoll to their Evangelical channel: One of the common responses when something like this hits the press is for evangelicals, self-lacerating sorts that we are, to say that […]

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Book Review: Assimilate or Go Home by D.L. Mayfield | Mere Orthodoxy

D. L. Mayfield's "Assimilate or Go Home," is a strong example of a young evangelical conversion narrative which is both prophetic and penitent in style.

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The PCA's "Tim Keller Problem" | Mere Orthodoxy

The PCA has a number of problems. But "Kellerism" isn't the issue. And if we aren't careful, the critiques of Kellerism will become a far larger issue.

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How Wellness Became an Epidemic - Commonplaces

From The Cut: A lot of the wellness movement addresses aspects of our lives previously considered basic and fundamental, like breathing or sleep. This spring, Arianna Huffington celebrated the tenth anniversary of what she calls her “great blessing.” On April 6, 2007, […]

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How Wellness Became an Epidemic - Commonplaces

From The Cut: A lot of the wellness movement addresses aspects of our lives previously considered basic and fundamental, like breathing or sleep. This spring, Arianna Huffington celebrated the tenth anniversary of what she calls her “great blessing.” On April 6, 2007, […]