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Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

the good work of Jon Fielder

I’m honored to know Jon Fielder and call him a friend. This article at The Gospel Coalition describes the good work he’s done in Africa to treat patients, teach health professionals, and proclaim the Gospel in word and deed. It […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured

Sex, Temptation, and the Gay Christian: What Chastity Demands

Can we have an argument about being a ‘gay Christian’? That is the question which I have been wondering since the storm of Baptist and Presbyterian furor descended upon Revoice. The conference is an attempt by a wide variety of […]

Matthew Loftus

powers, principalities, and Dr. King

I’ve wanted a discussion of “powers and principalities” with regard to racism for a while… and Eugene Rivers has brought it! To the extent that a biblical conception of supernatural forces informed King’s analysis of the challenges he faced and […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured

The Christian and Homosexuality: Further Notes Toward an Evangelical Sexual Ethic

Note: Given the recent discussions about Revoice–a conference at which I am speaking–I asked Jake if he would republish the two chapters from my first book that are directly on questions of sexual desire. Today’s essay takes up the question of homosexuality. Yesterday’s […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured

The Body and its Pleasure: Toward an Evangelical Sexual Ethic

Note: Given the recent discussions about Revoice–a conference at which I am speaking–I asked Jake if he would republish the two chapters from my first book that are directly on questions of sexual desire. Today’s essay takes up how evangelicalism has depicted […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomicsarchitecture

loneliness, refugees, and the spaces we live in

This essay by D.L. Mayfield in Comment is very relevant to my interests: The suburban neighbourhood where I currently live was not built for community. This was done by design—the suburbs were meant to be bastions of happy isolation, with […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyFeaturedCurrent Politics

Romans 13, Jeff Sessions, and Separating Families at the Border

Romans 13 can't be misused to argue that jailing people for a misdemeanor supersedes the good of families remaining together.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

global health innovations: delivering blood by drones!

I’m really enjoying MTV News’ Africa Specific series on various happenings in Africa — it’s not just “gee-whiz” stories, but substantial reporting that digs into some of the more complex political and social changes happening in many countries. This story […]

Matthew Loftus

"The Gig Economy"

This is a wild short story: Lately, I have not been feeling quite myself. I live on the internet, which is to say, I am a NEET living in my parents’ basement. In my online persona I pretend that I […]

Matthew LoftusFamily

philia and eros: sloppy wet kissing cousins

Most gay and straight people are going to spend their lives mixing up philia and eros. Better get used to it.

Matthew LoftusEthicsEducationHealth & Medicine

professionalism: the emperor has no clothes!

Medical professionals appeal to professionalism to guide their moral and ethical decision-making, but this is simply insufficient for the problems we face.

Steven WedgeworthFeatured

A Critical Review of Spiritual Friendship

By Steven Wedgeworth Later this summer a group of Christian writers will meet in St Louis for the Revoice Conference, an event that seeks to make a place for “gay, lesbian, same-sex attracted, and other LGBT Christians” in the conservative […]