Contributor

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.

Filed under

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 Meadorc.s. lewisdorothy sayersG. K. Chesterton

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.

Jake Meadorc.s. lewisdorothy sayersG. K. Chesterton

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.

Jake MeadorFeaturedEconomics and BusinessEvangelicalism

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.

Jake Meador

Silence, Martyrdom, and the Call to Die | Mere Orthodoxy

Far from being his salvation, Rodrigues decision to apostatize is actually a further confirmation of the great sin that plagues him throughout Endo's book.

Jake MeadorChurch

Reviewing "The End of Protestantism" by Peter Leithart

Dr. Coyle Neal argues that Leithart's new book suffers from a bad understanding of church history and deficient view of the cross.

Jake Meador

The Liturgies of Soccer | Mere Orthodoxy

The modern west may not be defined by traditional religion in the way it once was. But our defining institutions still have strongly religious elements.

Jake Meador

Happiness Drives Sacrifice - Commonplaces

In which Calvin explains the connection between a Christian's happiness and their capacity for sacrifice and service.

Jake Meador

Happiness Drives Sacrifice - Commonplaces

In which Calvin explains the connection between a Christian's happiness and their capacity for sacrifice and service.

Jake Meador

The Abolition of Troy Chatham | Mere Orthodoxy

Those who accuse Wendell Berry of idealizing the past simply aren't reading him closely enough.

Jake MeadorEconomicsc.s. lewis

The Sense of Ownership is Always to be Encouraged - Commonplaces

Lewis, writing as Screwtape, on the question of how one uses “their” time:

Jake MeadorEconomicsc.s. lewis

The Sense of Ownership is Always to be Encouraged - Commonplaces

Lewis, writing as Screwtape, on the question of how one uses “their” time:

Jake Meador

Sertillanges on the Intellectual Virtues - Commonplaces

According to Sertillanges, the good and the true flourish in the same soil and so they cannot be ultimately separated.