What We Read in 2025

December 30th, 2025 | 9 min read

As we continue our annual wrap up of the past year's work, here are some of the books that our editors and team have most enjoyed in the past year:

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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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