Contributor

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.

Filed under

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 Loftus

"I can’t work for justice and righteousness if I don’t have love in my heart." - Doctors Without Boredom

D.L. Mayfield reflects on a recent podcast on missionaries that unfortunately gets stuck in the swamp of mockery and criticism without love.

Matthew Loftus

"I can’t work for justice and righteousness if I don’t have love in my heart." - Doctors Without Boredom

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

Stay Woke, Cultivate Virtue - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

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

let's stop asking doctors to text while driving - Doctors Without Boredom

Using an EMR while talking to patients is like texting while driving. There's got to be a better way.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

let's stop asking doctors to text while driving - Doctors Without Boredom

Using an EMR while talking to patients is like texting while driving. There's got to be a better way.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

overselling the value of fistula surgery - Doctors Without Boredom

It turns out that fistulas aren't always as easy to fix as we thought, and sometimes the surgical "success" data are manipulated.

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

overselling the value of fistula surgery - Doctors Without Boredom

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

Wild Harbors, "Monument" - Doctors Without Boredom

Rocking out with Wild Harbors and their new record.

Matthew Loftus

Wild Harbors, "Monument" - Doctors Without Boredom

Rocking out with Wild Harbors and their new record.

Matthew LoftusCulture

learning the tools that let you make your own tools - Doctors Without Boredom

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 LoftusCulture

learning the tools that let you make your own tools - Doctors Without Boredom

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

what it costs our kids - Doctors Without Boredom

Tara Ann Thieke describes the ugly side of childcare and the harms parents do to themselves and their children.