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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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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

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Machen on the Decline of Christian Humanism - Commonplaces

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What should a priest be? - Commonplaces

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What should a priest be? - Commonplaces

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The Benedict Option and Its Reviewers | Mere Orthodoxy

The early reviews of Rod Dreher's "The Benedict Option" have tacitly explained why the idea began to catch on in the first place.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

Attending to the Language: Trump and the GOP Leadership

The Trump administration has caused those kings of euphemistic language, Washington politicians, to up their game to previously unseen levels.

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The Need to be Outside Christianity - Commonplaces

Vanauken: Davy and I, we later decided, were immeasurably helped in our serious look at Christianity by where we considered ourselves to be: we did not at all suppose that we were Christians, just because we were more or less […]

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The Need to be Outside Christianity - Commonplaces

Vanauken: Davy and I, we later decided, were immeasurably helped in our serious look at Christianity by where we considered ourselves to be: we did not at all suppose that we were Christians, just because we were more or less […]

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Christianity Will Cost You Everything - Commonplaces

Sheldon and Davy Vanauken were able to come to Christianity precisely because they knew what it would cost them.

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Christianity Will Cost You Everything - Commonplaces

Sheldon and Davy Vanauken were able to come to Christianity precisely because they knew what it would cost them.

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The Business of Evangelicalism: Notes on Gloege's "Guaranteed Pure"

Tim Gloege's book "Guaranteed Pure" is an essential study of evangelical history and a penetrating analysis of how business norms shaped the movement.