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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 […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyFeaturedCurrent Politics

Romans 13, Jeff Sessions, and Separating Families at the Border - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Romans 13 can't be misused to argue that jailing people for a misdemeanor supersedes the good of families remaining together.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

global health innovations: delivering blood by drones! - Doctors Without Boredom

I’m really enjoying MTV News’ Africa Specific series on various happenings in Africa — it’s not just “gee-whiz” stories, but substantial reporting that digs into some of the more complex political and social changes happening in many countries. This story […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

global health innovations: delivering blood by drones! - Doctors Without Boredom

I’m really enjoying MTV News’ Africa Specific series on various happenings in Africa — it’s not just “gee-whiz” stories, but substantial reporting that digs into some of the more complex political and social changes happening in many countries. This story […]

Matthew Loftus

"The Gig Economy" - Doctors Without Boredom

This is a wild short story: Lately, I have not been feeling quite myself. I live on the internet, which is to say, I am a NEET living in my parents’ basement. In my online persona I pretend that I […]

Matthew Loftus

"The Gig Economy" - Doctors Without Boredom

This is a wild short story: Lately, I have not been feeling quite myself. I live on the internet, which is to say, I am a NEET living in my parents’ basement. In my online persona I pretend that I […]

Matthew LoftusFamily

philia and eros: sloppy wet kissing cousins - Doctors Without Boredom

Most gay and straight people are going to spend their lives mixing up philia and eros. Better get used to it.

Matthew LoftusFamily

philia and eros: sloppy wet kissing cousins - Doctors Without Boredom

Most gay and straight people are going to spend their lives mixing up philia and eros. Better get used to it.

Matthew LoftusEthicsEducationHealth & Medicine

professionalism: the emperor has no clothes! - Doctors Without Boredom

Medical professionals appeal to professionalism to guide their moral and ethical decision-making, but this is simply insufficient for the problems we face.

Matthew LoftusEthicsEducationHealth & Medicine

professionalism: the emperor has no clothes! - Doctors Without Boredom

Medical professionals appeal to professionalism to guide their moral and ethical decision-making, but this is simply insufficient for the problems we face.

Steven WedgeworthFeatured

A Critical Review of Spiritual Friendship - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By Steven Wedgeworth Later this summer a group of Christian writers will meet in St Louis for the Revoice Conference, an event that seeks to make a place for “gay, lesbian, same-sex attracted, and other LGBT Christians” in the conservative […]

Jake MeadorChurch

On Not Being Like Juan Gines de Sepulveda - Commonplaces

If you haven’t read Catherine Addington’s post on the main page today, please do.