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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 MeadorGender
A year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans has stirred up controversy. This review explores the literary devices it uses.
Jake MeadorMarriage
C.S. Lewis was wrong on marriage, and Tolkien took him to task for it. Marriage isn't only a construction of the state. It has a theological dimension too.
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In a private security meeting in 1960 with President Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles explained that the soon-to-be-independent Congo was a diplomatic quagmire for the United States. The nation possessed enormous mineral wealth and if the United […]
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Cross posted at Notes from a Small Place. On Christopher's invite, I'm also responding to Matt's earlier post with my idea for a book
Jake MeadorUncategorized
I just finished reading Diablo Cody's Candy Girl, a memoir of the year she worked in the sex industry. When I first put the book down one of
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Cross posted at Notes from a Small Place. This fall, I'm hoping to receive a visit from my good friend Mashley. (I wrote about their wedding earlier this
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Cross-posted at Notes from a Small Place, where I've had several posts related to marriage lately, hence the disclaimer below. Disclaimer: I kinda-sorta want to apologize
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
Cross posted at Notes from a Small Place. It started with a quote posted on Peter Leithart's blog. If memory serves, it came from the pen of Collin
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I'd never heard of George William Curtis before this past Saturday. A quote of his popped up on my friend's facebook wall, in what I assume
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One of my old professors was fond of saying that in his class we take the first several weeks to chuck a whole bunch of balls in the air and we then spend the rest of the semester learning to […]
Jake MeadorGender
Cross posted at Notes from a Small Place. This post is part of an ongoing series of posts I'm doing regarding issues related to the body, gender, sexuality,
Jake MeadorEthicsembodiment
In Michel Foucault’s book Discipline and Punish he argues that over the past 200 years the emphasis of western justice has shifted from punishing the body to punishing the soul. To support this he cites a number of shifts in […]
