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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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Announcing Mere Orthodoxy's Patreon Campaign | Mere Orthodoxy

We're excited to announce a few new projects and a new funding strategy to hopefully help grow the site by allowing us to pay our regular contributors.

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17776 and the End of Nature | Mere Orthodoxy

17776 is an amazing, confusing, and fun piece of immersive fiction. But with the delight of reading it I also feel sad about the world it depicts.

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Book Review: Humble Roots by Hannah Anderson - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A couple weeks ago I was reviewing a draft of Kayla Snow’s excellent review of The Long, Long Life of Trees and we began talking about the historically unprecedented ignorance of place that defines many in the west today. A book like […]

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Book Review: Real Artists Don't Starve by Jeff Goins | Mere Orthodoxy

There is no shortage of practical wisdom here, but the ideology that shapes the book is destructive of anything save individual liberty and self-expression.

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Book Review: One by One by Gina Dalfonzo

Many books are currently being published about how churches can effectively include minority groups. It's an admirable but potentially wrong-headed move.

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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk–Chapter 5 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Chapter five is, so far, the most contemporary essay in Du Bois’s book. In it, he considers the city of Atlanta and what it says about the future of both African Americans and the South more broadly considered. He begins […]

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Book Review: Reclaiming Hope by Michael Wear | Mere Orthodoxy

The trouble with "Reclaiming Hope" is that, strangely, it is a deeply pietistic book about how Christians should work in politics.

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On Father's Day, Living in Losses, and Home | Mere Orthodoxy

Father's Day reminds us of the joy that can grow in a home. But what happens in places where home is a reality experienced only occasionally and by a few?

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Lessons from the UK for American Evangelicals - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

You’ll have to forgive my sounding like something of a broken record by this point, but I couldn’t let this news pass without flagging it for Mere O readers:

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On Ben Sasse, Civil Society, and Voting Records | Mere Orthodoxy

Ben Sasse's voting record may well contradict his stated social agenda. But if it does, it's worth asking "why?" and trying to understand the disconnect.

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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk–Chapter 4 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In chapter four Du Bois reflects on his time teaching at a black one-room schoolhouse in rural Tennessee. As such, most of the chapter is simply taken up with recounting what life looked like for an itinerant black school teacher […]

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Book Review: Keeping Place by Jen Pollock Michel | Mere Orthodoxy

Jen Pollock Michel's new book, though not perfect, is an excellent reflection on how Christians should approach place, homelife, and hospitality.