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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.

Jake MeadorGender

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: A(nother) Review

A year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans has stirred up controversy. This review explores the literary devices it uses.

Jake MeadorMarriage

Why C.S. Lewis is Wrong on Marriage

C.S. Lewis was wrong on marriage, and Tolkien took him to task for it. Marriage isn't only a construction of the state. It has a theological dimension too.

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A Failure of Storytelling: Kony 2012 and the Social Imagination - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In a private security meeting in 1960 with President Dwight Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles explained that the soon-to-be-independent Congo was a diplomatic quagmire for the United States. The nation possessed enormous mineral wealth and if the United […]

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The Title Waiting for Mr. Meador's Book

The Title Waiting for Mr. Meador's Book

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What makes good writing?

What makes good writing?

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On Land and Its Marks

On Land and Its Marks

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Nothing Behind the Curtain - Reflections on a Wedding

Nothing Behind the Curtain - Reflections on a Wedding

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Baptized Consumerism - An Argument for Christendom

Baptized Consumerism - An Argument for Christendom

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Arguing with George William Curtis

Arguing with George William Curtis

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Gender and the Body - How did we get here? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of my old professors was fond of saying that in his class we take the first several weeks to chuck a whole bunch of balls in the air and we then spend the rest of the semester learning to […]

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Gender, the home, and how we define "work"

Gender, the home, and how we define "work"

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Foucault's Discipline and Punish and the Abortion Debate or Why You Should Buy Matt's Book - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In Michel Foucault’s book Discipline and Punish he argues that over the past 200 years the emphasis of western justice has shifted from punishing the body to punishing the soul. To support this he cites a number of shifts in […]