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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 MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics
It’s a truth universally recognized by anyone who has ever talked about the BenOp that a person who expresses concern about the church’s future is in want of a person to quote Tertullian at them. Sorry, is that cheeky? Here’s […]
Jake MeadorFormation
Larry Taunton's book "The Faith of Christopher Hitchens" is a fine memoir that can teach evangelicals a great deal about evangelism, amongst other things.
Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism
The Benedict Option demands an ecclesiology that can promote both discipleship and evangelization. And the best answer may just be in Geneva.
Jake MeadorEthicsEconomics and BusinessCulture War
The growing popularity of boycotts suggests a dark future for neighborliness in the United States.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
Alastair Roberts, Brad Littlejohn, and Jake Meador discuss the immediate plans and long-term hopes for Davenant House.
Jake Meador
I think most readers of Wendell Berry, “The Seer” director Laura Dunn included, start with Berry’s non-fiction. They pick up The Unsettling of America or The Art of the Commonplace and go from there. That’s not how I came to Berry. I […]
Jake MeadorEconomics and BusinessCreation Care
Tomorrow I hope to publish a brief review of Laura Dunn’s new film “The Seer.” It’s a unique film and a hard one to pin down because while it is a portrait of Wendell Berry, Berry himself is never actually […]
Jake MeadorLiteratureLord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien
Tolkien's holy fools teach us a simple lesson: If you would save the world, you must love strawberries and cream.
Jake MeadorTelevision
Flipping the script in House of Cards simply reminds viewers of how limited and derivative the script actually is.
Jake MeadorChurchCurrent Politics
An inverted question of the great question facing Jayber Crow is the chief question facing many contemporary conservatives.
Jake MeadorBible
The failure of the literal hermeneutic doesn't mean evangelicals have lost the battle for the Bible.
Jake MeadorDemographicsCurrent Politics
Three brief observations on the question of social conservatism’s relationship to Donald Trump:
