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Matthew Loftus

life and death on a prayer walk

This essay is D.L. Mayfield at her very best: If our front door had a screen, I would have banged it on my way out. But instead, I closed it quietly, although I could still hear my children whining to […]

Tim MiloschPoliticsFeatured

Asynchronous Citizens: Addressing Flaws in Digital Citizenship

The 2011 Pew Research Center study, “Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites” is one of many evaluating the experience of the young on social media. Given ongoing concerns about the effects of social media on young people, the […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

preventing suicide with text messages

This article on the work of Dr. Jerome Motto and the therapists carrying on his work today is fascinating: The most pivotal response was sent to Douglas Kreider, one of Motto’s researchers, by a study participant who lived in an […]

Guest WriterBibleFeatured

The Seed of Woman: Mary Among the Protestants

One need not adopt all the Marian dogmas of the Roman church to recognize that Mary has a larger role in the biblical story than many Protestants recognize.

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthicsEconomics

Sabbath and soil

Years ago, when I first studied Isaiah 58, I found its call to honor the Sabbath mingled with the call to do away with violence and injustice odd. I suppose that I had grown up thinking of Sabbath-keeping as a […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyEthics

stopping adultery with honesty

Judy Wu Dominick shares her story at Christianity Today about telling her husband that she had feelings for another man: Looking back, it’s not surprising it happened. I was in the midst of a major identity shift that was changing the […]

Brewer EberlyFeatured

Reforming Virtue Ethics

Reformed Christians should have no difficulty with learning from and using concepts traditionally associated with virtue ethics.

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomics

"Uncontrolled liberalism, in other words, prepares the grounds for its own demise."

There are some very sharp insights in this interview with Pankaj Mishra in the LA Review of Books: “Liberal modernity,” you’ve argued, “has prepared the ground for its destruction” by unleashing forces that are “uncontrollable.” Have these forces contributed to […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

"economics of meaning"

Shadi Hamid has a very interesting essay in American Affairs Journal about the possibilities of left populism and the “economics of meaning”: It might be tempting to say that Left populists simply need a “hero”; the Left, unlike the Right, […]

Guest WriterFeatured

The Prophet of Unbelief: T. S. Eliot's Forgotten Predecessor

Though he wrote nearly 100 years before him, the 19th century poet Arthur Clough shows many of the same traits we associate with T. S. Eliot.

Matthew LoftusEconomics

what Amazon got out of the HQ2 search

Amazon got more than just some tax breaks in its HQ2 search: But arguably even more concerning than deepening regional inequality and the possibility of Bezos becoming the landlord of the nation’s capital is the fact that few cities will […]

Susannah Black and Jake MeadorFeatured

Forthcoming Special Edition Bibles from a Major Christian Publisher

It is already established that some major publishers will release very trivial special edition Bibles. Here are some further ideas for future releases.