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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 LoftusArtCulturebatman
I wanted to like The Batman. If only it wasn't so poorly written.
Matthew LoftusArtCulturebatman
I wanted to like The Batman. If only it wasn't so poorly written.
Matthew LoftusFeaturedhealth
When I started reading Amy Julia Becker’s new book To Be Made Well and Liuan Huska’s Hurting Yet Whole,[1] I was gripped instantly by the opening anecdotes. I had something of a reputation during my Family Medicine residency for attracting […]
Matthew LoftusCultureHistory
Nationalism may not be the boogeyman you want it to be, but it might be the petard which by nationalists are hoisting themselves.
Matthew LoftusCultureHistory
Nationalism may not be the boogeyman you want it to be, but it might be the petard which by nationalists are hoisting themselves.
Matthew LoftusFeaturedhealth
Trauma. Once a word that solely referred to a physical wound, it is now far more popularly discussed with regards to psychological wounds. One can read dozens of books about trauma and find countless memes floating around discussing it, but […]
Matthew LoftusCulture
if you think you're the lone bulwark of truth, you're halfway to tripping over your own shoelaces
Matthew LoftusCulture
if you think you're the lone bulwark of truth, you're halfway to tripping over your own shoelaces
Matthew LoftusFeaturedHealth and Medicine
In the struggle to fight COVID-19, terms like “public health” and “community health” have been bandied about in an attempt to describe the ways in which our health as individuals is not dependent on ourselves alone. Wendell Berry says: “I […]
Matthew LoftusCulture
thinking about the different sorts of idea-expressers and how much attention they deserve
Matthew LoftusCulture
thinking about the different sorts of idea-expressers and how much attention they deserve
Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured
At the climax of the recent wannabe-blockbuster film The Suicide Squad[1], a giant mind-controlling starfish is wreaking havoc across a nondescript non-American city when the team of super-villains (who are, from a story perspective, the heroes of the movie) must […]
