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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 MeadorEvangelicalism

The Importance of Not Caring About Mark Driscoll

The best way forward for American Protestants will be to simply stop caring about the sociological fights that have defined 'evangelicalism' for too long.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

The Meaning of "Weird"

There is a reason the 'these are weird people' line has worked so well for Democrats. It would behoove traditionalist Christians to understand that reason.

Jake MeadorFormation

Gratitude and the Life of Institutions

Healthy, life-giving relationships are virtually always formed within institutions where common loves and ambitions are more easily discovered.

Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics

Misreading Hamilton and 'Hamilton'

Our striver class lacks outlets and so slides toward decadence. The solution will be, at least in part, a moral awakening, a remembering of grace.

Jake MeadorFormation

Therapy and Bug Men

Though of limited help to us, neither therapy nor weight training nor any other earthly technique can truly provide the healing balm we seek.

Jake MeadorCulture WarCurrent Politics

Nina Power and the Network Effect

As long as right wing media is defined by network characteristics rather than institutional traits it will be impotent in the world of policy and politics.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

We Became American Because We Could

Virtually all the great natural joys of my life come to me because of my home place in America and because America is first of all an idea and a dream.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

The Permanent Things Endure

Politically captive visions of Christian faith have always been a part of American evangelicalism. But there are dissenting voices too.

Jake MeadorChurch

Observations on Exvangelicals and Deconstructing

Christian joy and a seriousness about life and neighbor is often all it takes to capture someone's attention in a world saturated by the superficial.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

The Hindu Nationalist Headlining NatCon4

A key leader in the Hindu nationalist movement in India, which has persecuted Christians for decades, will be at NatCon4 with Al Mohler and Doug Wilson.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Christianity Against the Civilizational State(s) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In his book Return of the Strong Gods, First Things editor Rusty Reno suggests that we are nearing the end of the long 20th century and, with it, the end of the American-centric global order that defined the latter stage […]

Jake MeadorCulture

Lessons from the Harrison Butker Saga

The controversy around Butker's speech doesn't suggest we should reject Christian virtues to secure our place in a hostile world, but quite the opposite.