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"Nothing can take form except within limits." - Doctors Without Boredom

Wendell Berry summarizes many of our contemporary problems quite well in this excellent interview with Gracy Olmstead: Those problems could be summed up as the triumph of industrialism and industrial values over the lives of living creatures, and over the […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomicsHealth & Medicine

"Nothing can take form except within limits." - Doctors Without Boredom

Wendell Berry summarizes many of our contemporary problems quite well in this excellent interview with Gracy Olmstead: Those problems could be summed up as the triumph of industrialism and industrial values over the lives of living creatures, and over the […]

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Book Review: On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior

Karen Swallow Prior manages to teach her readers about virtue and literature without ever treating the books as if they are merely world-view containers.

Matthew LoftusEconomicsHealth & Medicine

when inadequate care kills people - Doctors Without Boredom

This Lancet study suggests that low-quality health care is responsible for more deaths than lack of access to healthcare at all. Education is key to further developing healthcare systems — it’s why we do what we do! In low-income countries, […]

Matthew LoftusEconomicsHealth & Medicine

when inadequate care kills people - Doctors Without Boredom

This Lancet study suggests that low-quality health care is responsible for more deaths than lack of access to healthcare at all. Education is key to further developing healthcare systems — it’s why we do what we do! In low-income countries, […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomicsHealth & Medicine

everything you know about obesity is wrong - well, maybe not everything - Doctors Without Boredom

This essay about obesity, stigma, and medical practitioners by Michael Hobbes is arresting and convicting: And the medical community’s primary response to this shift has been to blame fat people for being fat. Obesity, we are told, is a personal failing […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomicsHealth & Medicine

everything you know about obesity is wrong - well, maybe not everything - Doctors Without Boredom

This essay about obesity, stigma, and medical practitioners by Michael Hobbes is arresting and convicting: And the medical community’s primary response to this shift has been to blame fat people for being fat. Obesity, we are told, is a personal failing […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

why are we still using faxes in the 21st century, anyway? - Doctors Without Boredom

Ilana Yurkiewicz looks at the ugly world of health records and how one of her patients kept getting harmed by the lack of information sharing: While most hospitals in the United States today use electronic health records, they remain disparate, […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

why are we still using faxes in the 21st century, anyway? - Doctors Without Boredom

Ilana Yurkiewicz looks at the ugly world of health records and how one of her patients kept getting harmed by the lack of information sharing: While most hospitals in the United States today use electronic health records, they remain disparate, […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

social justice, evangelicalism, and history - Doctors Without Boredom

I tried not to follow the brouhaha over the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel too closely — too much to keep up with when I felt like the original statement was a whole lot of shadowboxing and thus […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics

social justice, evangelicalism, and history - Doctors Without Boredom

I tried not to follow the brouhaha over the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel too closely — too much to keep up with when I felt like the original statement was a whole lot of shadowboxing and thus […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: *Disruptive Witness*, with The Alan Noble - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Alan Noble disrupts our show by discussing his new book *Disruptive Witness* with Alastair and Andrew. Alan is an Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, editor-in-chief of Christ and Pop Culture, and author of numerous articles. (He is […]