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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
On "loving and serving" when the LGBT agenda is hostile to Christian faith.
Matthew LoftusCulture
LGBT issues are pretty triggering for Christians. How do we deal with threats to religious liberty without giving in to hyperbole?
Matthew LoftusPolitics
We should oppose Trump's presidency, not resist it. More importantly, we should cultivate civic character.
Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics
Do Trump voters require our sympathy? Not really. But we can't just dismiss them, either.
Matthew Loftus
The alternate ending to a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr sermon contains some important words on grace we need to hear today.
Matthew LoftusFeaturedChurch
If the church is as bad as so many of those outside it think it is, is there even a point in going? Matthew Loftus says there is.
Matthew LoftusCultureHealth & Medicine
If you eat intellectual junk food, you will get moral diabetes. Which leads to cultural amputations and political dialysis. And terrible-analogy insulin.
Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics
Don't let the particulars of Wendell Berry's vision hinder you from learning from the principles.
Matthew LoftusCulture
Individualistic atomism is a juggernaut that an authoritarian nationalism won't hold back.
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
There are a lot of things that are broken about the American healthcare system. I think one the main problems can be summed up by observing that most parts of the system are not really designed to make people healthy, take […]
Matthew Loftus
Blogging is dead, they said. Until tweet-threads started taking over Twitter. In lieu of clogging up your timeline with thoughts that I had to cut precious words and meaning from anyway, I’ll be sharing too-long-for-a-tweet yet too-short-for-a-real-essay thoughts here. Probably […]
Matthew LoftusCurrent Politics
Matthew Loftus takes a closer look at the platform of a new third party in American politics, the Solidarity Party.
