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Jake Meador

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

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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The Law and the Burden of Love in Harry Potter

Love in Harry Potter is not simply sentiment, it is a choice, a willing toward the good of the beloved. And this love will pay any cost to save the beloved.

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The Narrow Vision of House of Cards | Mere Orthodoxy

For all their dissimilarities, there is one important and d

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The Forgetfulness of Love in Harry Potter

One of the less discussed points in Harry Potter is the forgetfulness of love, a theme Rowling develops in Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Luna.

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The Demands of Love in Harry Potter | Mere Orthodoxy

Love in Harry Potter is not primarily a feeling or emotion, but rather an orientation to the world that transforms everything one looks at.

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Curiosity & Love in the Harry Potter Books | Mere Orthodoxy

Curiosity often takes a vicious form in the information age. But the Harry Potter series shows how curiosity can be a virtue when practiced rightly.

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On the Libertarian Solution to the Marriage Debate

The Revs Christopher Seitz and Ephraim Radner have become the latest to propose a badly mistaken libertarian solution to the marriage debate.

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Evangelical Roots of the Benedict Option | Mere Orthodoxy

The much-discussed Benedict Option is actually old hat amongst a certain group of evangelicals who have been practicing it since 1955.

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Respectability and the Plausibility of Orthodoxy

The rise of moralistic, therapeutic deism has created new challenges for the church and, particularly, for the concept of religious orthodoxy.

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Should Sermons Be Published?

A recent Leadership Journal article explained how podcasting changes how we preach but never asked if sermons should be published in the first place.

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3 Thoughts on Kindle Unlimited

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?

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The Ethics of Jayber Crow - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]

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The Future of Protestantism Full Roundup - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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 […]