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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 MeadorEvangelicalism

Francis Schaeffer and Christian Intellectualism

If Christianity needs interpreters to make it sensible to a post-Christian, materialistic west, could Francis Schaeffer be a good model for us?

Jake MeadorEconomics and Business

When Writers Become Brands No One Wins

As traditional structures for financing journalistic work fail, we cannot only ask how to pay for journalism, we must also ask how we to train journalists.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

Notes on Donald Trump and His Evangelical Endorsers

The questions that a decision to endorse Trump raises cannot simply be limited to his character or to political prudence.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

The Evangelical Case for Voting for David Duke

Is there anyone evangelicals shouldn't support if he will help us with the Supreme Court? Is there any sin that would make them unelectable to evangelicals?

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Soma and the Silencing of Evangelicalism After Trump

The Trump campaign has proven that you do not need aggressive persecution regimes to silence the moral witness of evangelical Christians.

Jake MeadorHistory

Hamilton and Patriotism | Mere Orthodoxy

Lin-Manuel Miranda's marvelous work "Hamilton" provides an interesting window into how patriotism is evolving in the United States.

Jake MeadorEconomics and Business

Gender, Home Economies, and the Church, Ctd.

Today we're picking up a few leftover strands from yesterday's piece on complementarianism, evangelicalism, and home economies.

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The Evangelical Gender Crack-Up

The old complementarian evangelical package is falling apart, largely due to the flaws, simplifications, ambiguities, and gaps within its own principles.

Jake MeadorChurch

Minich and Leeman Joint Statement on Ecclesiology

Joseph Minich and Jonathan Leeman offer three shared affirmations and one lingering question following their ecclesiology debate.

Jake MeadorChurch

3 Ecclesiology Questions Evangelicals Need to Answer

In the aftermath of the back-and-forth between Joe Minich and Jonathan Leeman, a few key ecclesiology questions have become apparent.

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On Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

The killings of Alton Sterling & Philando Castile prove that we not only have a racism crisis in this country, but also a crisis of neighborliness.

Jake MeadorTrinity

The Trinity Debate and Big Eva | Mere Orthodoxy

The trinitarian debate has, thus far, been marked more by (somewhat understandable) tone-policing and Bulverism than serious debate—and that's tragic.