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Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

"gifts of time, money, and sympathy" - Doctors Without Boredom

If you’ve never read this essay on W.H. Auden’s quiet benefience, you’re in for a real treat: W.H. Auden had a secret life that his closest friends knew little or nothing about. Everything about it was generous and honorable. He […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

"gifts of time, money, and sympathy" - Doctors Without Boredom

If you’ve never read this essay on W.H. Auden’s quiet benefience, you’re in for a real treat: W.H. Auden had a secret life that his closest friends knew little or nothing about. Everything about it was generous and honorable. He […]

Matthew LoftusCulture

hope when everything's getting worse - Doctors Without Boredom

I felt like this piece from Clare Coffey about hope in the face of despair was very good, and I think you will, too: It is very possible that anxiety distorts perception of the world. It is also possible that […]

Matthew LoftusCulture

hope when everything's getting worse - Doctors Without Boredom

I felt like this piece from Clare Coffey about hope in the face of despair was very good, and I think you will, too: It is very possible that anxiety distorts perception of the world. It is also possible that […]

Samuel JamesFeaturedCurrent Politics

The Public Square Is about Parenting | Mere Orthodoxy

Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff's new book is ostensibly about politics, but ultimately much of the argument is really about family and parenting.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

CCHF Match - Doctors Without Boredom

I know that I have readers who are medical professionals or healthcare administrators interested in integrating their faith and work as they serve the poor… so I’m delighted to share about CCHF Match, a service that tries to do just […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

CCHF Match - Doctors Without Boredom

I know that I have readers who are medical professionals or healthcare administrators interested in integrating their faith and work as they serve the poor… so I’m delighted to share about CCHF Match, a service that tries to do just […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

the faith and work movement... for workers! - Doctors Without Boredom

The Faith and Work movement set out to do something worthwhile: encouraging people to think of their work as a vocation honoring to God. Unfortunately, it has really focused on the vocations of the creative class and other upper-middle-class professionals […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

the faith and work movement... for workers! - Doctors Without Boredom

The Faith and Work movement set out to do something worthwhile: encouraging people to think of their work as a vocation honoring to God. Unfortunately, it has really focused on the vocations of the creative class and other upper-middle-class professionals […]

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Confessions, Book 13

Mere Fidelity: Confessions, Book 13

Guest WriterFeaturedCurrent Politics

Pack the House: How to Fix the Legislative Branch | Mere Orthodoxy

The easiest way to fix the legislative branch is simple: add more representatives to the House. The legal mechanism for doing it already exists: the CAA.

Matthew LoftusCulture

pluralism and hell - Doctors Without Boredom

Shadi Hamid, who is one of the sharpest foreign policy commentators out there, has a really good interview in Providence magazine about Islam, liberalism, and pluralism: As for theological resources that conservatives might share across faiths, something I’ve been thinking about […]