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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

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 […]

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Three Reasons You Should Watch Mad Men - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Matt got us started on the TV/Pop Culture kick, so I figured it’d be OK if I made my own TV recommendation for Mere O readers. Season 4 of AMC’s hit Mad Men will be debuting this July, which means […]

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Sayers on Work: What about the Sabbath? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Dorothy Sayers says that work is what we were put on earth to do. And, personally, I want to agree with her. But supposing one accepts that definition of work, how then do we understand the Sabbath?

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismHistory/Church History

The Sustainability of a Purely Evangelical Identity

The Sustainability of a Purely Evangelical Identity

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Lousy Trailers and Sewage-filled Ponds

Lousy Trailers and Sewage-filled Ponds

Jake MeadorEducation

"Victimization" Studies and the Evangelical Conscience - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

A bit more background on me: My focus during my undergraduate career was post-colonial African history. Someday I want to go to grad school to continue studying it. Depending on the program I get in, I might be able to […]