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Matthew Loftus

Matthew grew up in a family of 15 children and completed his medical training in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2015, he and his family have lived in East Africa, where he currently teaches and practices Family Medicine at a mission hospital. His work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Atlantis, and Mere Orthodoxy and his first book is forthcoming from InterVarsity Press. You can learn more about his work and writing at www.matthewandmaggie.org.

By Matthew Loftus

tara isabella burton, “the destroyer”

February 7th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Moral Formation and Sexual Abuse, Part II: Learning to love what is good by loving one another

February 7th, 2018|11 min read

By Matthew Loftus

my neighbor totoro

February 6th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

science should be more political, not less

February 6th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Moral Formation and Sexual Abuse Pt. 1: The Problem, How We Make It Worse, and How We Can't Make It Better

February 5th, 2018|12 min read

By Matthew Loftus

farewell to facebook

February 4th, 2018|4 min read

By Matthew Loftus

choosing our limitations

February 1st, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

How the plea deal sausage gets made

January 31st, 2018|2 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Andrew Osenga, “The Painted Desert”

January 31st, 2018|2 min read

By Matthew Loftus

pro-life, anti-abortion, and a consistent ethic of anything

January 7th, 2018|4 min read

By Matthew Loftus

If Anything Is Pro-Life, Nothing Is

January 4th, 2018|9 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Conservatism Fails to Act Responsibly

October 26th, 2017|12 min read

By Matthew Loftus

On Powers, Principalities, and Politics

October 20th, 2017|12 min read

By Matthew Loftus

what about Christian healthcare sharing ministries?

October 17th, 2017|3 min read

By Matthew Loftus

The Uneasy Conscience of a Christian Liberal: On Michael Wear’s “Reclaiming Hope”

September 27th, 2017|11 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Creating a Just and Good Healthcare System

July 26th, 2017|12 min read

By Matthew Loftus

A Christian Manifesto on Healthcare and the State

July 18th, 2017|3 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Finding the Gospel in Game of Thrones

July 14th, 2017|2 min read

By Matthew Loftus

letting dying people die is not the same as killing them

June 30th, 2017|3 min read

By Matthew Loftus

the insanity of autonomy

May 26th, 2017|3 min read