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Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

learning from other countries about community health workers - Doctors Without Boredom

One of my favorite hobbyhorses is community health workers, so I’m delighted to see that someone is trying to study how we might more broadly implement them in the US: The task force says that involving community representatives in the […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

learning from other countries about community health workers - Doctors Without Boredom

One of my favorite hobbyhorses is community health workers, so I’m delighted to see that someone is trying to study how we might more broadly implement them in the US: The task force says that involving community representatives in the […]

Matthew LoftusHistoryEconomics

there aren't good short-term fixes for migration, either - Doctors Without Boredom

Last week I highlighted a really good article about the long-term migration problem that the world is facing. Here is more evidence from The Atlantic that things aren’t holding in the short-term, either: When I asked immigration experts this week […]

Matthew LoftusHistoryEconomics

there aren't good short-term fixes for migration, either - Doctors Without Boredom

Last week I highlighted a really good article about the long-term migration problem that the world is facing. Here is more evidence from The Atlantic that things aren’t holding in the short-term, either: When I asked immigration experts this week […]

Matthew Loftus

christian nationalism is good - Doctors Without Boredom

Especially when confronted with spectacles like church choirs singing “Make America Great Again”, it is natural that we would recoil in horror from the idea of Christian nationalism. Many argue, in fact, that there can rightly be no such thing, […]

Matthew Loftus

christian nationalism is good - Doctors Without Boredom

Especially when confronted with spectacles like church choirs singing “Make America Great Again”, it is natural that we would recoil in horror from the idea of Christian nationalism. Many argue, in fact, that there can rightly be no such thing, […]

Matthew LoftusEconomics

illth - Doctors Without Boredom

I stumbled upon this fine little essay from Micah Meadowcroft about illth, a term coined by John Ruskin to describe the misuse of wealth: There are no unique secrets here, just the recognition that money can be misspent — or […]

Matthew LoftusEconomics

illth - Doctors Without Boredom

I stumbled upon this fine little essay from Micah Meadowcroft about illth, a term coined by John Ruskin to describe the misuse of wealth: There are no unique secrets here, just the recognition that money can be misspent — or […]

Matthew Loftus

pastoring and politics - Doctors Without Boredom

I appreciated this from Dan Darling about the blurred lines between pastoring and politics: Yes, the gospel is inherently political. It is the declaration that there is another king and another kingdom, that all the accumulated power in this world, […]

Matthew Loftus

pastoring and politics - Doctors Without Boredom

I appreciated this from Dan Darling about the blurred lines between pastoring and politics: Yes, the gospel is inherently political. It is the declaration that there is another king and another kingdom, that all the accumulated power in this world, […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine

love in a time of ebola - Doctors Without Boredom

The Christian Journal for Global Health is an underappreciated source of interesting articles and original research. I wanted to highlight a recent article reflecting on the Ebola crisis and the risk taken by health professionals (both African and non-African) to […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine

love in a time of ebola - Doctors Without Boredom

The Christian Journal for Global Health is an underappreciated source of interesting articles and original research. I wanted to highlight a recent article reflecting on the Ebola crisis and the risk taken by health professionals (both African and non-African) to […]