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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 MeadorPolitics
The Revs Christopher Seitz and Ephraim Radner have become the latest to propose a badly mistaken libertarian solution to the marriage debate.
Jake MeadorHistoryEvangelicalism
The much-discussed Benedict Option is actually old hat amongst a certain group of evangelicals who have been practicing it since 1955.
Jake MeadorCultureChurchSocial Trends
The rise of moralistic, therapeutic deism has created new challenges for the church and, particularly, for the concept of religious orthodoxy.
Jake MeadorChurch
A recent Leadership Journal article explained how podcasting changes how we preach but never asked if sermons should be published in the first place.
Jake MeadorTelevisionEconomics and BusinessTechnologyWriting
Amazon recently launched Kindle Unlimited, a Netflix-for-books service. The launch prompts 2 questions: Will it work? How will it change the way we read?
Jake MeadorChurchFormation
In The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry Anthony Esolen notes that Berry’s longest Port William novel, Jayber Crow, is in many ways a modern day retelling of Dante. Berry’s own language throughout the book suggests the comparison, as his narrator, the […]
Jake MeadorChurch
Normally this would go up over at Notes, but we wanted to be sure that everyone sees the full roundup of responses (so far) to last week’s Future of Protestantism event at Biola. There figure to be more responses in […]
Jake Meador
Tolkien's treatment of violence was complex, recognizing that violence could be both heroic and depraved, serving the life of a place or undermining it.
Jake MeadorChurch
We often mistakenly believe that church membership ought to be determined chiefly or exclusively on the basis of theological disagreement.
Jake MeadorPolitics
George RR Martin's critique of the politics of Tolkien, while somewhat understandable, misrepresents Tolkien on a foundational level.
Jake Meador
Dan Siedell is an art critic and curator who has written extensively on art's relationship to faith and Christianity.
Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism
The story of millennials joining high church traditions is becoming more common in the traditionalist blogosphere--but is it telling the whole story?
