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Matthew Loftus
I enjoyed this story by Shira Telushkin about the Coptic Church in America adapting culturally. Growing up in the church and working overseas, debates about how to adapt to “the culture” are usually about European or Western traditions either trying […]
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
Smoking is very, very bad. It’s in everyone’s interest to cut it back. And it looks like e-cigarettes might be helpful as smokers try to quit! And then the kids started doing it… and then the kids found the juul. Cigarette […]
Matthew LoftusFamily
I am a bit biased because Wes Hill is a dear friend, but man! This essay of his in Comment about breaking up with a friend and choosing to build deep, intimate friendships with families is so good: I spent my […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Last week provided two more examples of what is an increasingly hard-to-dispute fact: There will be little mercy in the post-2016 United States.
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics
Everyone loves a good read about the history of sex robots, right? “Sex robots,” therefore, have always been about more than sex. They’ve been a cultural repository for wider uncertainties in times of social change: a literalization of the fear […]
Matthew LoftusCultureCriminal Justice
Shadi Hamid, Vanda Felbab-Brown, and Harold Trinkunas share an excerpt from their new book on governance and trust, a subject that I’ve been banging on about for quite a while now: The Taliban claims to adhere to a strict interpretation of […]
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
I’ve never seen a better, more succinct Q&A on what a good diet means, so I’m sharing this one: I feel smarter, but what happens when new information comes out, like, tomorrow? How can I stay up to date? It seems […]
Matthew LoftusCriminal Justice
This article about Palantir is something else: “The world changed when it became clear everyone could be targeted using Palantir,” says a former JPMorgan cyber expert who worked with Cavicchia at one point on the insider threat team. “Nefarious ideas […]
Daniel HindmanFeaturedCurrent Politics
If the police power gives the state right to act in matters of health, what happens when all of life is assumed under "health and wellness"?
Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomics
Note: I am sorry for the inconsistent posting schedule. Our family moved two weeks ago to our new field of service and the internet here is so inconsistent that I have been unable to connect every time that I sat […]
Matthew EmersonFeatured
There is a way to say more than the Bible says by insisting that theology consists of only repeating phrases from the Bible.
Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity
Derek, Matt and Alastair read Book 9 of Augustine's Confessions, which includes the vision at Ostia and Monica's death. If you’re interested in supporting the