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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 Meador

On the roots of community | Mere Orthodoxy

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.

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What is to be done about the evangelical industrial complex?

Carl Trueman recently attacked the evangelical celebrity industrial complex. Does Radical Christianity offer anything different? Jake Meador examines.

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The Ethics of Watching Mad Men - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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.

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A Tribute to Edith Schaeffer - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Edith Schaeffer, and her husband Francis, were the orthodox voices that stayed with me as I studied more liberal brands of Christianity.

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House of Cards: Kevin Spacey, Tolkien, and the Bible - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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.

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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.

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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