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Matthew Loftus

"I can’t work for justice and righteousness if I don’t have love in my heart." - Doctors Without Boredom

D.L. Mayfield reflects on a recent podcast on missionaries that unfortunately gets stuck in the swamp of mockery and criticism without love.

Matthew Loftus

"I can’t work for justice and righteousness if I don’t have love in my heart." - Doctors Without Boredom

D.L. Mayfield reflects on a recent podcast on missionaries that unfortunately gets stuck in the swamp of mockery and criticism without love.

Jake Meador

Two Questions After Reading Jonathan Leeman's "How the Nations Rage"

Jonathan Leeman's new book has much practical wisdom, but the underlying political imagination leaves something to be desired.

Jake Meador

Two Questions After Reading Jonathan Leeman's "How the Nations Rage"

Jonathan Leeman's new book has much practical wisdom, but the underlying political imagination leaves something to be desired.

Jake Meador

Hospitality requires skill. - Commonplaces

Hospitality is place-making with the goal of serving others. Creating a place like that requires patience, time, and cultivating a number of skills.

Jake Meador

Hospitality requires skill. - Commonplaces

Hospitality is place-making with the goal of serving others. Creating a place like that requires patience, time, and cultivating a number of skills.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured

Stay Woke, Cultivate Virtue - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The new synthetic morality fails precisely because it offers no account of personal formation, no means of shaping an individual person toward virtue.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

let's stop asking doctors to text while driving - Doctors Without Boredom

Using an EMR while talking to patients is like texting while driving. There's got to be a better way.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

let's stop asking doctors to text while driving - Doctors Without Boredom

Using an EMR while talking to patients is like texting while driving. There's got to be a better way.

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mere Fidelity: Ross Douthat, on 'To Change the Church' - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat joins Derek and Matt to discuss his new book, To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. Douthat’s excellent new book explores the legacy of Pope Francis and the crisis within the Roman Catholic […]

Tessa CarmanBook Reviews

Book Review: Easter Stories: Classic Tales for the Holy Season

Plough's new anthology of Easter stories ably captures both the beauty of Easter and the surprising, even shocking, fact of Christ's resurrection.

Aaron RennFeaturedEvangelicalism

Jordan Peterson's Folk Wisdom - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Peterson's appeal is rooted in his adherence to traditional folk wisdom during an age when many, including evangelicals, have abandoned it.