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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 Meador

2024 Eliot Awards and Observations on the State of Print Media

It's time to honor another year of excellent journalistic writing with this year's 'Eliot Awards.'

Jake MeadorFormation

Do We Even Want Peace on Earth?

In a day of ever-growing partisan rage and enemy hatred, I wonder if we even want Jesus to come, the one who will bring peace to earth.

Jake MeadorChurchFormation

Constructing Toward Catholicity

I've known many people who left one evangelical church and found another, or who simply leave altogether. I have known few who leave and find catholicity.

Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism

Evangelical Catholicity and American Church Futures

If the American church is to take advantage of the opportunities in front of us we will need to shift our ways of thinking about several key issues.

Jake MeadorPolitical Theology

Civic Republicanism and the Magisterial Reformation

The civic republican tradition is partially downstream of magisterial Protestantism, yet it is today largely forgotten by many.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

The Doug Election and America After the Great Dechurching

The Doug election is a fascinating reset of America's socio-political context and offers exciting possibilities to politically marginal evangelicals.

Jake MeadorHistoryCulture War

Against Syncretism, For Christians Building Like Christians

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

Even When He Was Drunk!: A Reformation Day Lament

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

Reading Benedict XVI Eight Days Before an Election

Benedict XVI's treatment of liberation theology, first written in 1984, remains deeply relevant to us today.

Jake MeadorFormation

You Must Never Wish for Another Life

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 and the Formation of Writers

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

The Cramped Universality of Calvinistic Baptists

Sometimes history suggests certain critiques to us which, on further inspection, are actually contrived and simplistic, concealing more than they reveal.