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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.

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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.

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Asia Bibi should get asylum anywhere she wants - Doctors Without Boredom

I am glad to see this call from Providence magazine to grant Asia Bibi asylum… anywhere. (More on her story here.) The obvious shouldn’t need saying, but it is clear that there are many Muslims in the UK, whether new immigrant or […]

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tomb raider? - Doctors Without Boredom

This essay is as fascinating and fun as everyone says it is: The Nazareth inscription is a block of marble, about two feet tall, a foot wide, and two inches deep. The first of its 22 lines of text, carved […]

Matthew LoftusHistoryarchaeology

tomb raider? - Doctors Without Boredom

This essay is as fascinating and fun as everyone says it is: The Nazareth inscription is a block of marble, about two feet tall, a foot wide, and two inches deep. The first of its 22 lines of text, carved […]

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wokeness and gnosticism - Doctors Without Boredom

I enjoyed this essay from Anthony Barr on the question of “wokeness” and gnosticism: I want to suggest that “woke” is a redeemable term. If we think of wokeness as loving attentiveness to reality, a commitment to seeing the world […]

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wokeness and gnosticism - Doctors Without Boredom

I enjoyed this essay from Anthony Barr on the question of “wokeness” and gnosticism: I want to suggest that “woke” is a redeemable term. If we think of wokeness as loving attentiveness to reality, a commitment to seeing the world […]

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the paranoid style in American Christianity - Doctors Without Boredom

Christians are always tempted by fear, but genuine challenges require genuine faith.

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthics

the paranoid style in American Christianity - Doctors Without Boredom

Christians are always tempted by fear, but genuine challenges require genuine faith.

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"The FDA's Mango-Flavored Trolley Problem" - Doctors Without Boredom

Don’t you just love that headline? These competing concerns leave the FDA trying to thread a particularly tricky needle: How do they get these products into the hands of the people who need them, while keeping them away from people […]

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"The FDA's Mango-Flavored Trolley Problem" - Doctors Without Boredom

Don’t you just love that headline? These competing concerns leave the FDA trying to thread a particularly tricky needle: How do they get these products into the hands of the people who need them, while keeping them away from people […]

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can white people be saved? - Doctors Without Boredom

I know many of my followers might be skeptical of the concept of “whiteness” and may bristle at the question, “Can white people be saved?” If that’s you — and even if it’s not — I invite you to read […]

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can white people be saved? - Doctors Without Boredom

I know many of my followers might be skeptical of the concept of “whiteness” and may bristle at the question, “Can white people be saved?” If that’s you — and even if it’s not — I invite you to read […]

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we need a twenty-first century Comstock - Doctors Without Boredom

Anthony Comstock was vilified and mocked in his time, but our times call for a new Comstock -- and some real restrictions on pornography.