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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

CTE , football, and black men

August 10th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Christians and AIDS

August 9th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

limits appropriate to the human condition

August 7th, 2018|2 min read

By Matthew Loftus

atomization, loneliness, and sex

August 6th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Maria Goretti and #MeToo

August 3rd, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

loving those who would throw stones at us

August 2nd, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

nonstandard patients, nonstandard doctors, nonstandard procedures

August 1st, 2018|4 min read

By Matthew Loftus

community impact

July 31st, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

from indifference to sabotage

July 30th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

flourishing and paid family leave

July 24th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

“the patient in the hospital bed is just the icon”

July 23rd, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Time to Flourish: On the Center for Public Justice’s New Paid Family Leave Report

July 23rd, 2018|8 min read

By Matthew Loftus

transitional justice for Jim Crow

July 20th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Defending the Vulnerable Requires More Than a New Supreme Court Justice

July 19th, 2018|13 min read

By Matthew Loftus

desire like dynamite

July 19th, 2018|2 min read

By Matthew Loftus

poverty of imagination

July 18th, 2018|2 min read

By Matthew Loftus

the elephant curve

July 17th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

2 gilead 2 handle

July 16th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

“Let Me Stand”

July 12th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

what if people want what’s bad?

July 11th, 2018|1 min read