The Archive
Matthew Loftus
Barbara McClay has another excellent piece at Commonweal about St. Maria Goretti: For a Christian, no one can be wholly monster—indeed, some monsters are victims themselves. But the Mennonite response to Yoder should serve as a cautionary tale: The story of […]
Jake Meador
Johanna Finegan's pre-conference talk is a concise and comprehensive rebuttal to many of the criticisms of the Revoice conference.
Matthew Loftus
I have always savored Wesley Hill’s love for the Gospel; his first book, Washed and Waiting, is just full of it, which is why it’s a great book to read even if you don’t care a bit about the homosexuality debate. […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured
Though it is widely misunderstood, fear should play a role in the sanctification of the believer, including in the sanctification of their sexual lives.
Guest WriterFeaturedHealth and Medicine
By John Brewer Eberly, Jr., MD and Ben Frush, MD We recently published a case commentary in the AMA Journal of Ethics titled, “What Should Physicians and Chaplains Do When a Patient Believes God Wants Him to Suffer?” which has us […]
Matthew LoftusEthicsEducation
When I was in college, I spent three summers living in Kenya and working in Kibera, an urban slum that is home to over a million people. It was there that I first felt called to long-term cross-cultural work, worked […]
Jake MeadorArt
One of the things I am increasingly convinced of is the fact that many, many American young people are actually quite concerned with matters of spirituality and religious life. The much-discussed “rise of the nones” is less about the rejection of […]
Zack HolbrookFeatured
Paul Schrader's "First Reformed" is a careful and frustratingly ambiguous film asking questions about how places shape us and we, in turn, respond to them.
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics
The Families Valued initiative of the Center for Public Justice has just released their new report on paid family leave, and I have some thoughts about it over on the main page. I think they make a pretty solid argument […]
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
Abraham Verghese has a moving and pointed reflection about the ubiquity of technology in the hospital: When students arrive on the wards full time, white coats packed with the aforementioned instruments, measuring tape, tuning fork, flashlight and Snellen eye chart, […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyFeaturedEconomics and BusinessCurrent Politics
The Center for Public Justice's new report on paid family leave is a valuable advocacy piece on an important issue, but lacks detail in key places.
Matthew LoftusEthics
Decades after the Civil Rights Act and the end of Jim Crow, it’s clear that American attempts to reckon with racial injustices have been insufficient. But what could we have done — or do — differently? Anthony Bradley has a […]