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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
Stories of evangelicals struggling with fatigue from the culture war have been getting a great deal of attention. But "culture war" may be the wrong term.
Jake MeadorLiteratureLord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien
JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings shows us many truths, not the least of which is the life-giving power of loving small things.
Jake Meador
Love in Harry Potter is not simply sentiment, it is a choice, a willing toward the good of the beloved. And this love will pay any cost to save the beloved.
Jake MeadorPoliticsTelevision
For all their dissimilarities, there is one important and d
Jake Meadorharry potterBook Reviews
One of the less discussed points in Harry Potter is the forgetfulness of love, a theme Rowling develops in Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Luna.
Jake MeadorPoliticsEthics
Love in Harry Potter is not primarily a feeling or emotion, but rather an orientation to the world that transforms everything one looks at.
Jake Meador
Curiosity often takes a vicious form in the information age. But the Harry Potter series shows how curiosity can be a virtue when practiced rightly.
Jake MeadorPolitics
The Revs Christopher Seitz and Ephraim Radner have become the latest to propose a badly mistaken libertarian solution to the marriage debate.
Jake MeadorHistoryEvangelicalism
The much-discussed Benedict Option is actually old hat amongst a certain group of evangelicals who have been practicing it since 1955.
Jake MeadorCultureChurchSocial Trends
The rise of moralistic, therapeutic deism has created new challenges for the church and, particularly, for the concept of religious orthodoxy.
Jake MeadorChurch
A recent Leadership Journal article explained how podcasting changes how we preach but never asked if sermons should be published in the first place.
Jake MeadorTelevisionEconomics and BusinessTechnologyWriting
Amazon recently launched Kindle Unlimited, a Netflix-for-books service. The launch prompts 2 questions: Will it work? How will it change the way we read?
