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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.

Jake MeadorFeaturedHistoryCulture War

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.

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

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.

Jake MeadorPoliticsHistoryEvangelicalism

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.

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation

Lent, Individualism, and Christian Piety | Mere Orthodoxy

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

Jake MeadorCommunities

Machen on the Decline of Christian Humanism - Commonplaces

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Jake MeadorCommunities

Machen on the Decline of Christian Humanism - Commonplaces

Machen:

Jake MeadorChurch

What should a priest be? - Commonplaces

Vanauken:

Jake MeadorChurch

What should a priest be? - Commonplaces

Vanauken:

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

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.

Jake Meador

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 […]

Jake Meador

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 […]