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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 MeadorEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics
Ruth Graham's latest in Slate is both useful and interesting, but misunderstands the current political mood amongst evangelicals.
Jake MeadorDevotionalFormation
Rob and Ruth Meador discuss how God has revealed himself to them and preserved them in the aftermath of Rob's traumatic brain injury.
Jake Meador
About two-thirds of the way through Dan Lyons’ new book Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble my mind went, as it often does, to an excerpt from a Wendell Berry essay. The essay is “Two Economies” and in it Berry […]
Jake MeadorBlogging
Hey all, here are a few brief housekeeping things I wanted to draw to your attention. Secure Browsing First, if you at the URL bar, you’ll see a padlock next to the URL for the website. This is a sign that […]
Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics
One reader (perhaps we can call him Mere O’s very own Professor Kingsfield?) of Friday’s post raised another possible mechanism that could be used by courts or legislatures to target conservative religious groups: the fear of “religious extremism.” Jake — […]
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 […]
