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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 LoftusFeaturedCurrent Politics
Fixing the problems in American healthcare will require a different approach to health and a broader distribution of decision-making power.
Matthew LoftusFeaturedCurrent Politics
Matthew Loftus provided 14 theses for debate on Christianity, healthcare, and the responsibilities of the nation-state.
Matthew LoftusFeaturedTelevision
Unless you’re living under a rock (or the proverbial bushel), it’s impossible to have missed the phenomenon that is Game of Thrones. Part fantasy epic, part prestige television, its controversial subject matter has made it a bit of a touchy […]
Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine
The government shouldn't interfere with a parents' decision to try to keep their child alive. But keeping someone alive isn't always ethical & dignifying.
Matthew LoftusCulture
By untethering ourselves from a sense of obligation to one another and sacralizing autonomy, we've sown the seeds for moral chaos.
Matthew LoftusFeaturedEvangelicalismCurrent Politics
Friends, There is an urgent soul-cry from the culture. From our neighbors. This cry has been silenced by the church and ignored by the media.
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
The government is really only good at three things: killing people, keeping people from dying, and collecting money to do the first two things
Matthew Loftus
Secular morality is just as convoluted as religious morality. But that's the fun part!
Matthew Loftus
Alan Jacobs is exploring how Wink's Powers and Gaiman's Gods interact, and I couldn't be more excited.
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
Conservatives have failed to articulate what a just healthcare system would look like. Here are 5 options to choose from.
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
Health care is a social good that buttresses the right to life. It is not a market commodity.
Matthew LoftusFeaturedChurchCulture War
The Social Justice Warriors need the Benedict Option as much as the Benedict Option needs the Social Justice Warriors.
