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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

looking for better mind-readers

October 7th, 2021|4 min read

By Matthew Loftus

“Biopolitics” Are Unavoidable

September 28th, 2021|13 min read

By Matthew Loftus

a few different and possibly useful categories of idea-expressers

September 2nd, 2021|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Starfish Stories

August 18th, 2021|14 min read

By Matthew Loftus

could i interest you in everything all of the time? [because everything is the same]

July 27th, 2021|2 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Racism and Whiteness: Bad Words We Have to Live With

May 12th, 2021|21 min read

By Matthew Loftus

A Shot Off the Mark: Reviewing Christakis’s “Apollo’s Arrow”

March 30th, 2021|7 min read

By Matthew Loftus

That Others May Live: Fetal Cell Lines and Vaccine Production

January 29th, 2021|6 min read

By Matthew Loftus

things that can be true at the same time

August 5th, 2020|10 min read

By Matthew Loftus

The Ethics of Healthcare Rationing

April 3rd, 2020|16 min read

By Matthew Loftus

an alternative ethic

December 2nd, 2019|2 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Pro-Blood, Pro-Soil, Pro-Nation, Pro-Christianity

October 4th, 2019|7 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Public Education, Justice, and Solidarity

September 16th, 2019|3 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Book Review: Between Life and Death by Kathryn Butler

June 5th, 2019|9 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Sex and the Supremacy of Technique

April 29th, 2019|7 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Desire, Duty, and Dynamite

April 1st, 2019|7 min read

By Matthew Loftus

“You have got to feed the biology of the soil.”

January 14th, 2019|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

exposing the wounds in the Church

January 11th, 2019|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

whither conservatism?

January 10th, 2019|2 min read

By Matthew Loftus

“legalizing marijuana won’t solve those disparities”

January 9th, 2019|1 min read