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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 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.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
The best way forward for American Protestants will be to simply stop caring about the sociological fights that have defined 'evangelicalism' for too long.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
There is a reason the 'these are weird people' line has worked so well for Democrats. It would behoove traditionalist Christians to understand that reason.
Jake MeadorFormation
Healthy, life-giving relationships are virtually always formed within institutions where common loves and ambitions are more easily discovered.
Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics
Our striver class lacks outlets and so slides toward decadence. The solution will be, at least in part, a moral awakening, a remembering of grace.
Jake MeadorFormation
Though of limited help to us, neither therapy nor weight training nor any other earthly technique can truly provide the healing balm we seek.
