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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 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.
Jake MeadorLaw
Arguing For and Against Capital Punishment
Jake Meadorthe vocation of writingWriting
The firing of Bill Simmons by ESPN provides further proof that capital has transformed the work of online writers into little more than marketing.
Jake MeadorCulture War
The Benedict Option may be less about articulating a new response to new challenges and more about returning to classic Christian orthodoxy.
Jake MeadorCulture
Conversations about "reenchantment" can quickly become lifeless and arid--which is why we should all watch this classic goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Jake MeadorChurch
The New Parish is a book with a great idea executed only half as well as it might have been, due in no small part to the dreadful language the writers use.
Jake Meador
Reading GK Chesterton for the first time can be a bit like eating chicken vindaloo after a lifetime of hamburgers and mac and cheese.
Jake MeadorCulture War
For one day in 1914 thousands of soldiers laid down their guns and stopped trying to kill each other. It was the Christmas Truce. But it lasted only a day.
Jake MeadorCulture War
Stories of evangelicals struggling with fatigue from the culture war have been getting a great deal of attention. But "culture war" may be the wrong term.
Jake MeadorLiteratureLord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien
JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings shows us many truths, not the least of which is the life-giving power of loving small things.
