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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 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.
Jake Meador
One of the core problems for localists is making explicit the cultural assumptions that serve as the roots of community embedded in a local place.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalismJohn Piperfrancis chanTimothy J. Kellerchristian celebritiesradical christianity
Carl Trueman recently attacked the evangelical celebrity industrial complex. Does Radical Christianity offer anything different? Jake Meador examines.
Jake MeadorTelevision
While it is certainly good that evangelicals can recognize and appreciate good art when they see it, we should be careful when viewing shows like Mad Men.
Jake Meador
Edith Schaeffer, and her husband Francis, were the orthodox voices that stayed with me as I studied more liberal brands of Christianity.
Jake MeadorTelevision
House of Cards is not unique in creating an impregnable individualistic villain who will do anything to seize power. Tolkien offers other examples, as well.
