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Matthew LoftusEthicsEducationHealth & Medicine

more on teaching professionalism to medical students - Doctors Without Boredom

After reading Brewer Eberly’s great piece on the main site about virtue ethics and the Reformed tradition, I was delighted to find this reflection from him about teaching professionalism to medical students: And yet, medical students may be disconnected from moral […]

Jonathan LeemanFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Evangelicalism, Christian Identity, and Church Membership

Many evangelical institutions have an alarming tendency to function as if the local church were an afterthought or an add-on to the Christian life.

Matthew LoftusBibleHistory

there may have been a manger, but it wasn't a stable - Doctors Without Boredom

Stop your nativity pageants! What, then, does it mean for the kataluma to have ‘no space’? It means that many, like Joseph and Mary, have travelled to Bethlehem, and the family guest room is already full, probably with other relatives who arrived earlier. […]

Matthew LoftusBibleHistory

there may have been a manger, but it wasn't a stable - Doctors Without Boredom

Stop your nativity pageants! What, then, does it mean for the kataluma to have ‘no space’? It means that many, like Joseph and Mary, have travelled to Bethlehem, and the family guest room is already full, probably with other relatives who arrived earlier. […]

Matthew LoftusCriminal Justice

baby steps on criminal justice reform - Doctors Without Boredom

Emma Green looks at the conservative Christian push for the First Step Act and the pushback from other Christian leaders wary of working with Trump on anything — and leaving the underlying issues unaddressed: Conservative religious leaders like Colson saw […]

Matthew LoftusCriminal Justice

baby steps on criminal justice reform - Doctors Without Boredom

Emma Green looks at the conservative Christian push for the First Step Act and the pushback from other Christian leaders wary of working with Trump on anything — and leaving the underlying issues unaddressed: Conservative religious leaders like Colson saw […]

Matthew LoftusHistoryEconomics

makes you wanna holler - Doctors Without Boredom

This report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (an organization doing more than any other, I think, to highlight where and how people can be working for the localism we like to talk about) highlights how dollar stores deliver low-quality goods […]

Matthew LoftusHistoryEconomics

makes you wanna holler - Doctors Without Boredom

This report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (an organization doing more than any other, I think, to highlight where and how people can be working for the localism we like to talk about) highlights how dollar stores deliver low-quality goods […]

Matthew Loftus

what cannot be rebuilt - Doctors Without Boredom

This is a heartbreaking story about the exodus of Christians from Iraq by Janine di Giovanni: In the summer of 2014, the Islamic State occupied Christian cities and villages across northern Iraq, appropriated Christian homes, and destroyed farms of Christian […]

Matthew Loftus

what cannot be rebuilt - Doctors Without Boredom

This is a heartbreaking story about the exodus of Christians from Iraq by Janine di Giovanni: In the summer of 2014, the Islamic State occupied Christian cities and villages across northern Iraq, appropriated Christian homes, and destroyed farms of Christian […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedBlogging

Mere Orthodoxy Best of 2018 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

We ran our list of the best feature writing in 2018 yesterday. Today I wanted to recap the written work we have done at Mere O this year. Due almost entirely to changes with Facebook’s algorithm, our traffic numbers are […]

Matthew LoftusArt

my two favorite Advent records (plus more!) - Doctors Without Boredom

Just wanted to highlight my two favorite Advent records here. The first is Behold the Lamb of God, which tells the story of the Bible leading up to the birth of Jesus and traces the longing for a Savior from […]