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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.
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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 MeadorHistoryCulture War
We can be loudly and effectively opposed to syncretism without hollowing out ordinary Christian vocations as a means of neighborly love.
Jake MeadorHistory/Church History
The Reformation was a call for renewal founded on faith in God and commitment to the ordinary practices of Christian piety.
Jake MeadorPolitical TheologyCurrent Politics
Benedict XVI's treatment of liberation theology, first written in 1984, remains deeply relevant to us today.
Jake MeadorFormation
Desiring a better live or place somewhere else will only impoverish your home place and rob you of the joys that are rightly yours as a follow of Jesus.
Jake MeadorWriting
Substack has provided economic support to struggling writers, but the broader shifts it has brought to the writing economy might be less good.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
Sometimes history suggests certain critiques to us which, on further inspection, are actually contrived and simplistic, concealing more than they reveal.
Jake MeadorEvangelism
Something has shifted regarding which social groups seem more open to Christian faith. What drove that shift and how should we respond as Christians?
Jake MeadorChurch
While it is true that the American church must get more serious about anti-corruption efforts, it is also true that many quietly faithful pastors remain.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
Most Americans now live in what Paul Kingsnorth has called 'the void.' While devastatingly sad, it also suggests a wonderful opportunity for the church.
Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics
The promise and hope that came with early forms of disenchantment have given way to a sense of despair.
Jake MeadorTechnology
Societies with healthy, functional institutions have built-in models for sorting and filtering information. When those defenses fail, everyone suffers.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
When a sociological evangelicalism is the norm, it quickly leads to clericalism and a distended, twisted vision of Christian common life.
