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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 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?
Jake MeadorChurch
One of the most important and neglected themes in recent tributes to him is the Anglicanism of CS Lewis. Both evangelicals and Catholics tend to miss it.
Jake MeadorCulture
Rod Dreher and Brian Gumm raised a major question about Jake's essay on small towns: how can we have viable small towns without a viable small town economy?
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
There's a sharp difference between speaking prophetically to the church and standing outside the church and making public criticisms.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
The "Christianity Must Change or Die" meme is back. And with it come a group of Chicken Little evangelical bloggers convinced that evangelicalism is dying.
Jake MeadorEducationCulture
What would happen if money from short-term missions trips were diverted toward under-funded local Christian institutions?
Jake MeadorPoliticsHistory
Friend of Mere O Brad Littlejohn and William Cavanaugh have had in interesting debate on violence and the nation state over at the Political Theology blog.
Jake MeadorTheology and PracticeCurrent Politics
When we lose track of retributive justice, we lack the philosophical and ethical tools to handle disgraced politicians like Mark Sanford.
