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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 MeadorEvangelism
Something has shifted regarding which social groups seem more open to Christian faith. What drove that shift and how should we respond as Christians?
Jake MeadorChurch
While it is true that the American church must get more serious about anti-corruption efforts, it is also true that many quietly faithful pastors remain.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
Most Americans now live in what Paul Kingsnorth has called 'the void.' While devastatingly sad, it also suggests a wonderful opportunity for the church.
Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics
The promise and hope that came with early forms of disenchantment have given way to a sense of despair.
Jake MeadorTechnology
Societies with healthy, functional institutions have built-in models for sorting and filtering information. When those defenses fail, everyone suffers.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
When a sociological evangelicalism is the norm, it quickly leads to clericalism and a distended, twisted vision of Christian common life.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
The collapse of the old Protestant Mainline is the public moral disaster that America still hasn't recovered from or reckoned with.
Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryPolitical TheologyCurrent Politics
Preserving American liberalism will almost certainly require us to think of liberalism not as an ideology but as a political method.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
Arguments from despair become an easy way of suspending one's ordinary judgment or of tacitly coercing someone into an irrational change of mind.
Jake MeadorSocial Trends
The path that leads Jayber Crow toward health and belonging is worth our attention, not least because it is now in danger of being lost.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalismFormation
Is the Hunterian project of faithful presence simply dead today, an antiquated method that can't cope with contemporary challenges? (No, it isn't.)
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
If you are a Christian seeking a culture of life and justice and you support a politician in exchange for... nothing, well, nothing is what you'll receive.
