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Where We’ve Been; Where We’re Going

November 30th, 2021 | 5 min read

By Jake Meador

Mere Orthodoxy was founded in 2005 as a blog run by several recent graduates from the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University in Los Angeles. It was a space where these friends, which included our founding editor Matthew Lee Anderson, hoped to continue the reading and the conversations they had enjoyed for four years at Biola under the guidance of teachers like Fred Sanders and John Mark Reynolds. These friends were devoted to asking good questions, pursuing truth, and doing all of that within a community. These goals still animate our work at Mere O to this day. Nearly 17 years later we are still trying to say true things about God and his works in a loud, divided, and ideological age.

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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, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.

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