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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 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.
Matthew LoftusCulture
When we talk about "values" but not character, we cut ourselves off from the things we want.
Matthew LoftusFamilyHealth & Medicine
Black mothers & their children die at higher rates than their white counterparts, even when controlling for income and education. What can be done?
Matthew LoftusCulture
There is so much here in this long essay about the controversial Pentecostal preachers of Haiti and the traditional Vodou practices: I asked [the pastor] whether he had founded Shalom to combat Vodou in the country, and he shook his […]
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
Everybody thinks performance improvement for doctors. The problem is deciding what you're going to measure.
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics
I love it when Eve Tushnet gets on her soapbox about poverty and virtue, and this great piece about the much-touted “success sequence” is no exception: The people I speak with believe they have a responsibility—there’s that word again—to achieve […]
Matthew Loftus
D.L. Mayfield reflects on a recent podcast on missionaries that unfortunately gets stuck in the swamp of mockery and criticism without love.
Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured
The new synthetic morality fails precisely because it offers no account of personal formation, no means of shaping an individual person toward virtue.
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
Using an EMR while talking to patients is like texting while driving. There's got to be a better way.
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
It turns out that fistulas aren't always as easy to fix as we thought, and sometimes the surgical "success" data are manipulated.
Matthew Loftus
Rocking out with Wild Harbors and their new record.
Matthew LoftusCulture
Alan Jacobs doesn’t want kids to learn to code. But he does think they should learn to build their own websites: To teach children how to own their own domains and make their own websites might seem a small thing. […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics
Tara Ann Thieke describes the ugly side of childcare and the harms parents do to themselves and their children.
