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Matthew LoftusEducation

The glory of reading - Doctors Without Boredom

Micah Meadowcroft sounds a refrain that we can’t hear often enough: The glory of reading is its capacity to make us more ourselves, as we learn with minimal mediation how to pay attention and integrate within our own minds the […]

Matthew LoftusEthics

the four-paned window - Doctors Without Boredom

I like Carl Ellis’ take on the four-paned window of Biblical righteousness: If we pair these dimensions in all possible combinations, we get four manifestations of righteousness: personal piety, social piety, personal justice, and social justice. This can be illustrated by the […]

Matthew LoftusEthics

the four-paned window - Doctors Without Boredom

I like Carl Ellis’ take on the four-paned window of Biblical righteousness: If we pair these dimensions in all possible combinations, we get four manifestations of righteousness: personal piety, social piety, personal justice, and social justice. This can be illustrated by the […]

Guest WriterFeaturedChurch

Why Evangelicals Should Care More About Ecclesiology

Many of the problems currently afflicting evangelicalism circle back in one way or another to questions of power, accountability, and institutional life.

Matthew Loftus

the call is coming from inside the house - Doctors Without Boredom

You should always read Comment and you should always read Alan Jacobs, but you should especially always read Alan Jacobs in Comment: This essay has been, I hope it is now clear, a series of stories of evasion. Human beings wish to believe […]

Matthew Loftus

the call is coming from inside the house - Doctors Without Boredom

You should always read Comment and you should always read Alan Jacobs, but you should especially always read Alan Jacobs in Comment: This essay has been, I hope it is now clear, a series of stories of evasion. Human beings wish to believe […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

the devil in the details - Doctors Without Boredom

Jeffrey Bilbro has an excellent essay ruminating on the question of GMOs in the New Jerusalem, inspired by Abigail Murrish’s thoughts at Christianity Today on the same. Here’s Murrish: if the New Jerusalem will have as-yet-unseen cultural diversity—the best of what […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

the devil in the details - Doctors Without Boredom

Jeffrey Bilbro has an excellent essay ruminating on the question of GMOs in the New Jerusalem, inspired by Abigail Murrish’s thoughts at Christianity Today on the same. Here’s Murrish: if the New Jerusalem will have as-yet-unseen cultural diversity—the best of what […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

Supporting Graduate Medical Education in East Africa - Doctors Without Boredom

An appeal for funding to support African doctors who want to bless their communities

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

Supporting Graduate Medical Education in East Africa - Doctors Without Boredom

An appeal for funding to support African doctors who want to bless their communities

Matthew LoftusCultureHistory

"the joy of cryptozoology" - Doctors Without Boredom

How can you not love an essay like this? Clare Coffey is a delight to read: That the movements of the human mind, its bent for narrative and order, might correspond to something real besides raw evolutionary fitness simply does […]

Matthew LoftusCultureHistory

"the joy of cryptozoology" - Doctors Without Boredom

How can you not love an essay like this? Clare Coffey is a delight to read: That the movements of the human mind, its bent for narrative and order, might correspond to something real besides raw evolutionary fitness simply does […]