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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 MeadorBook Reviews

You Should Be Reading Jeffrey Stout

You don't have to choose between power-obsessed progressivism or modernity-hating neo-traditionalism. There are other options.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

Friendship in the Good: A Retrospective of Sorts

Solidarity unmoored from a sober and delighted pursuit of the good is a cancer.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryCurrent Politics

Liberalism Wins

It is remarkable how quickly one can become a liberal when one is threatened and an appeal to liberal rights might help you.

Jake MeadorWorkBook Reviews

To Praise Ambitious Men

Bahnsen's 'Full-Time' is a welcome and much needed vindication of ambition. But its treatment of work is still narrow and thus quite limited.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

Vibe Emission Is Not a Political Strategy

Being effective in politics is not about emitting the proper vibes, but understanding how democratic systems work and operating effectively within them.

Jake MeadorCultureHealth & MedicineFilm Reviews/Hollywood

The End of Choice

Two recent essays, one in New York and the other at The Free Press, further demonstrate how inhumane and starved for love our cultural moment truly is.

Jake MeadorHoly Week

Easter Day

He is risen!

Jake MeadorHoly Week

Holy Friday

On Holy Thursday we reflect on Christ's imminent death with the aid of an antiphon hymn from the Eastern church.

Jake MeadorHoly Week

Holy Thursday

On Holy Thursday we reflect on Christ's imminent death with the aid of an antiphon hymn from the Eastern church.

Jake MeadorHoly Week

Holy Wednesday

On Holy Wednesday, we return to 'Were You There?' but this time with a recording from Mahalia Jackson.

Jake MeadorHoly Week

Holy Tuesday

On Holy Tuesday, we consider a poem by Christina Rossetti.

Jake MeadorHoly Week

Holy Monday

We begin Holy Week by remembering a particularly powerful Good Friday hymn and reviewing what Jesus did on Holy Monday.