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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 Meador
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
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
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
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
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.
Jake MeadorFeatured
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.
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
One of the most frequent, annoying arguments in religious journalism concerns the definition of an "evangelical." To solve the problem, we created a quiz.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
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.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
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 […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
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.
Jake Meador
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 […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism
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 […]
