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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
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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Carl Trueman recently attacked the evangelical celebrity industrial complex. Does Radical Christianity offer anything different? Jake Meador examines.
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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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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.
Jake MeadorGender
A year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans has stirred up controversy. This review explores the literary devices it uses.
Jake MeadorMarriage
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.
Jake Meador
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
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What makes good writing?
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On Land and Its Marks
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Nothing Behind the Curtain - Reflections on a Wedding