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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.

Matthew LoftusEthics

"I was hurting and she was trying to make sure I was OK" - Doctors Without Boredom

Sorry there were no blog posts last week. I traveled from one side of the country to the other (literally!) and was swamped with work and other very important things. The regular posting schedule resumes this week.  This story about […]

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CTE , football, and black men - Doctors Without Boredom

Bradford William Davis has an excellent interview with Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian-born neuropathologist who is sounding the alarm on chronic traumatic encephalopathy: If you ask Omalu today, he’ll tell you that you should never, ever play football again. In […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine

CTE , football, and black men - Doctors Without Boredom

Bradford William Davis has an excellent interview with Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian-born neuropathologist who is sounding the alarm on chronic traumatic encephalopathy: If you ask Omalu today, he’ll tell you that you should never, ever play football again. In […]

Matthew LoftusHistoryHealth & Medicine

Christians and AIDS - Doctors Without Boredom

The history of Christians and health services is a complicated one. This article by Michael Igoe is a great summary of evangelical advocacy for PEPFAR, which has provided billions of dollars for HIV treatment, and the difficult needle different parties […]

Matthew LoftusHistoryHealth & Medicine

Christians and AIDS - Doctors Without Boredom

The history of Christians and health services is a complicated one. This article by Michael Igoe is a great summary of evangelical advocacy for PEPFAR, which has provided billions of dollars for HIV treatment, and the difficult needle different parties […]

Matthew LoftusEthics

limits appropriate to the human condition - Doctors Without Boredom

It seems that a lot of criticism of technology criticism goes along the lines of “it’s not the technology, it’s user error” — and along with this critique is often the very Whiggish idea that if we just come up […]

Matthew LoftusEthics

limits appropriate to the human condition - Doctors Without Boredom

It seems that a lot of criticism of technology criticism goes along the lines of “it’s not the technology, it’s user error” — and along with this critique is often the very Whiggish idea that if we just come up […]

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atomization, loneliness, and sex - Doctors Without Boredom

There has been much written about atomization and the rise of loneliness (and surely there is much more to write), but this essay by Andrea Mrozek is a good summation of the problem: The failure of the sexual revolution for […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyatomization

atomization, loneliness, and sex - Doctors Without Boredom

There has been much written about atomization and the rise of loneliness (and surely there is much more to write), but this essay by Andrea Mrozek is a good summation of the problem: The failure of the sexual revolution for […]

Matthew Loftus

Maria Goretti and #MeToo - Doctors Without Boredom

Barbara McClay has another excellent piece at Commonweal about St. Maria Goretti: For a Christian, no one can be wholly monster—indeed, some monsters are victims themselves. But the Mennonite response to Yoder should serve as a cautionary tale: The story of […]

Matthew Loftus

Maria Goretti and #MeToo - Doctors Without Boredom

Barbara McClay has another excellent piece at Commonweal about St. Maria Goretti: For a Christian, no one can be wholly monster—indeed, some monsters are victims themselves. But the Mennonite response to Yoder should serve as a cautionary tale: The story of […]

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loving those who would throw stones at us - Doctors Without Boredom

I have always savored Wesley Hill’s love for the Gospel; his first book, Washed and Waiting, is just full of it, which is why it’s a great book to read even if you don’t care a bit about the homosexuality debate. […]