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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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Benedict Option Quiz: What Political Theology Are You? | Mere Orthodoxy

Take this quiz to figure out which of the six political theologies we described last week best fits your beliefs about religion and politics.

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Indexing Political Theologies: Six Christianity and Culture Strategies - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of the smarter criticisms I’ve read of Rod’s book comes from Doug Wilson’s initial post about it in which he raises the question of whether we are moving into a time of extended testing under an established regime hostile […]

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Gangs of New Jerusalem: Act 1 | Mere Orthodoxy

The Reformed Katholic Krewe and Tradinista Apostles are preparing for war. Meanwhile, the Gospel Disciples enforcer is fed up with the Woke Feelings Havers.

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On Reinvigorating Family Worship: A Mere O Project

We're going to be posting a series of short reflections from different families about what they do for family worship with their kids.

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Is it really that bad? Christianity, Secularism, and Apocalypse

"How to Survive the Apocalypse" is a great case for Christian faithful presence in a secular, pluralistic culture. But it is still a flawed, naive argument.

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How Do Movements Grow? The BenOp, Conversation, and Local Advocacy - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of my primary points in my review of Rod’s book is that orthodox Christians need a robust commitment to conversation if we are to thrive in a post-Christian context. Given the importance this will play and the related point […]

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Reviewing Rod Dreher's "The Benedict Option | Mere Orthodoxy

Before it is anything else, Rod Dreher's "The Benedict Option" is a handbook for Christians attempting to live out their faith in a post-Christian world.

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The New Alarmism Is Not New and Is Not Alarmism | Mere Orthodoxy

The problems that Rod Dreher, Archbishop Chaput, Drs. R. R. Reno and Anthony Esolen raise in their books aren't new and their concerns are quite reasonable.

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Reviewing Anthony Esolen's "Out of the Ashes"

Anthony Esolen's punchy book is valuable because the imaginative Esolen does a marvelous job of depicting the good and helping his readers to desire it.

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On Presidential Politics and Evangelical Cultural Clout

The electoral success of the Republican party has convinced some that evangelicalism is still culturally ascendant. That idea is almost entirely mistaken.

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Lent, Individualism, and Christian Piety | Mere Orthodoxy

Alastair Roberts and Jake Meador discuss how modern individualism shapes and distorts our experience of Lent.

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Machen on the Decline of Christian Humanism - Commonplaces

Machen: