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Matthew LoftusCultureHistory

Public Justice Review's Manifesto - Doctors Without Boredom

I have long admired the work of the Center for Public Justice, and their new manifesto about sums up why: First, the kingship of Christ moderates any pretensions to royal earthly authority. This matters because in the old covenant with […]

Matthew LoftusCriminal Justice

spiritually overseeing the watchmen - Doctors Without Boredom

This report on ministries to prison guards by Eve Tushnet is well worth your time: And yet today, startlingly few Christian ministries exist to serve those who work in jails and prisons. Chaplains and other Christian volunteers come to visit […]

Matthew LoftusCriminal Justice

spiritually overseeing the watchmen - Doctors Without Boredom

This report on ministries to prison guards by Eve Tushnet is well worth your time: And yet today, startlingly few Christian ministries exist to serve those who work in jails and prisons. Chaplains and other Christian volunteers come to visit […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture War

The Lord's Work in the Lord's Way: Against the Culture War - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

One of the saddest consequences of the culture war is that it has managed to make people boring. The culture war has made us predictable, even if individual people are anything but. The libertarian online troll is in real life […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

the good work of Jon Fielder - Doctors Without Boredom

I’m honored to know Jon Fielder and call him a friend. This article at The Gospel Coalition describes the good work he’s done in Africa to treat patients, teach health professionals, and proclaim the Gospel in word and deed. It […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

the good work of Jon Fielder - Doctors Without Boredom

I’m honored to know Jon Fielder and call him a friend. This article at The Gospel Coalition describes the good work he’s done in Africa to treat patients, teach health professionals, and proclaim the Gospel in word and deed. It […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured

Sex, Temptation, and the Gay Christian: What Chastity Demands - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Can we have an argument about being a ‘gay Christian’? That is the question which I have been wondering since the storm of Baptist and Presbyterian furor descended upon Revoice. The conference is an attempt by a wide variety of […]

Matthew Loftus

powers, principalities, and Dr. King - Doctors Without Boredom

I’ve wanted a discussion of “powers and principalities” with regard to racism for a while… and Eugene Rivers has brought it! To the extent that a biblical conception of supernatural forces informed King’s analysis of the challenges he faced and […]

Matthew Loftus

powers, principalities, and Dr. King - Doctors Without Boredom

I’ve wanted a discussion of “powers and principalities” with regard to racism for a while… and Eugene Rivers has brought it! To the extent that a biblical conception of supernatural forces informed King’s analysis of the challenges he faced and […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured

The Christian and Homosexuality: Further Notes Toward an Evangelical Sexual Ethic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Note: Given the recent discussions about Revoice–a conference at which I am speaking–I asked Jake if he would republish the two chapters from my first book that are directly on questions of sexual desire. Today’s essay takes up the question of homosexuality. Yesterday’s […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFeatured

The Body and its Pleasure: Toward an Evangelical Sexual Ethic - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Note: Given the recent discussions about Revoice–a conference at which I am speaking–I asked Jake if he would republish the two chapters from my first book that are directly on questions of sexual desire. Today’s essay takes up how evangelicalism has depicted […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomicsarchitecture

loneliness, refugees, and the spaces we live in - Doctors Without Boredom

This essay by D.L. Mayfield in Comment is very relevant to my interests: The suburban neighbourhood where I currently live was not built for community. This was done by design—the suburbs were meant to be bastions of happy isolation, with […]