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Matthew LoftusCulture

choosing our limitations - Doctors Without Boredom

If we want to get the benefits of community, we'll have to experience its limitations.

Matthew LoftusCulture

choosing our limitations - Doctors Without Boredom

If we want to get the benefits of community, we'll have to experience its limitations.

Matthew LoftusCriminal Justice

How the plea deal sausage gets made - Doctors Without Boredom

Justin Fenton digs deep into Baltimore's reception court, where 93% of felony convictions in Baltimore are made.

Matthew LoftusCriminal Justice

How the plea deal sausage gets made - Doctors Without Boredom

Justin Fenton digs deep into Baltimore's reception court, where 93% of felony convictions in Baltimore are made.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Book Club: Confessions, Book VI

Book Club: Confessions, Book VI

Matthew Loftusandrewosenga

Andrew Osenga, "The Painted Desert" - Doctors Without Boredom

This year, I’m hoping to keep this blog more active with short posts about stories and essays I’ve been reading, but I also want to share more music. I love writing and listening to music and there’s a lot of […]

Matthew Loftusandrewosenga

Andrew Osenga, "The Painted Desert" - Doctors Without Boredom

This year, I’m hoping to keep this blog more active with short posts about stories and essays I’ve been reading, but I also want to share more music. I love writing and listening to music and there’s a lot of […]

Jake Meador

Book Review: Confident Pluralism by John Inazu | Mere Orthodoxy

Inazu's book offers a compelling case for the legal norms needed in a pluralistic society, but it isn't, as some have said, a hopeful alternative to Dreher.

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Three Notes on Women Professors and Seminary | Mere Orthodoxy

Debates like the one prompted by Piper's comments are inevitable and irresolvable until we get better at institution building and dogmatic theology.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture War

Liberalism and Personal Formation | Mere Orthodoxy

So far the conservative response to the radtrads has ignored the most important point of the debate: Liberalism is very bad at producing liberals.

Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Equality

Mere Fidelity: Equality

Jake MeadorHistory

Notes on Edgardo Montara from a Protestant Onlooker | Mere Orthodoxy

The outrage that followed First Things's publication of an essay on the Mortara affair has, sadly and predictably, focused on the wrong questions.