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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 Meador
You might summarize Josh Ritter's work as being a lament over a world in which love is not at home.
Jake MeadorTechnologySexualityTinder
The Vanity Fair piece on Tinder and the end of dating has rightly alarmed many readers, but not always for the right reasons.
Jake MeadorBlogging
Despite the ubiquity of the online slang "tl;dr" we at Mere O still want to run long posts that take the time necessary to speak truthfully about an issue.
Jake MeadorPolitics
The third and fourth videos in the Center for Medical Progress’s series on Planned Parenthood dropped this week and the response, at least to the third, has been a bit different from that of the first two weeks. (As I […]
Jake MeadorBlogging
The future of Mere O is bright as we attempt to pioneer a different approach to online publishing built on friendship & indifference toward the news cycle.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
I wrote a piece for the future of evangelicalism series over at Patheos.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
Many young evangelical memoirs offer a number of essential lessons for evangelicals as as well as a few cautionary tales about church life gone wrong.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
In 1968 Francis Schaeffer wrote on how the church ought to SSA Christians. Pulpit and Pen would do well to listen to him.
Jake MeadorPolitics
Same-sex marriage has been inevitable for decades. When the home economy was gutted it is only natural that family life would be likewise compromised.
Jake MeadorCulture WarFormation
If the Benedict Option is to succeed, then we cannot understand it as the creation of retreats. We must instead see it as being about the creation of homes.
Jake MeadorHistory/Church Historychurch historyLawMarcionism
When evangelicals talk about the Old Testament they can quickly slip into a type of Marcionism, particularly when talking about the Pentateuch.
Jake MeadorCulture War
There's a certain type of evangelical who thinks our movement's biggest problem is a lack of credibility with non-Christians. Unfortunately, they are wrong.
