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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.

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Public Education, Justice, and Solidarity - Doctors Without Boredom

The insanity of New York's preschool interviews shows how broken meritocracy is. But justice is more than just sending your kid to a diverse school.

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Book Review: Between Life and Death by Kathryn Butler | Mere Orthodoxy

Matthew Loftus reviews Kathryn Butler's new book which seeks to provide a Christian framework for thinking about end-of-life medical care.

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Sex and the Supremacy of Technique - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Last week’s essay from Matthew Lee Anderson and Andrew Walker about evangelicals and in vitro fertilization makes an argument worth discussing: God intends that sex and procreation should not be separated from each other. It made me think of the […]

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Desire, Duty, and Dynamite | Mere Orthodoxy

The crises of the earth's degradation and of familial life both have a common source--a refusal to live as an embodied members of a natural order.

Matthew LoftusEconomics

“You have got to feed the biology of the soil.” - Doctors Without Boredom

I have long been interested in the work of the Land Institute and their perennial crops, so I appreciated this story about how people are trying to use them: “Mainstream agriculture, they just don’t get it,” says Jerry Doan, standing […]

Matthew LoftusEconomics

“You have got to feed the biology of the soil.” - Doctors Without Boredom

I have long been interested in the work of the Land Institute and their perennial crops, so I appreciated this story about how people are trying to use them: “Mainstream agriculture, they just don’t get it,” says Jerry Doan, standing […]

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exposing the wounds in the Church - Doctors Without Boredom

I really wish this New Yorker profile of Karen Swallow Prior had been about three times as long, but it’ll have to do for now: The next morning, we shared a breakfast of scrambled eggs with some venison that Roy had […]

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exposing the wounds in the Church - Doctors Without Boredom

I really wish this New Yorker profile of Karen Swallow Prior had been about three times as long, but it’ll have to do for now: The next morning, we shared a breakfast of scrambled eggs with some venison that Roy had […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

whither conservatism? - Doctors Without Boredom

While there’s a lot more that could be said and a lot of things that could be said differently (as I hope to in a forthcoming essay for Mere-O), I appreciated this assessment from Timothy Shenk at Dissent of where things are […]

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

whither conservatism? - Doctors Without Boredom

While there’s a lot more that could be said and a lot of things that could be said differently (as I hope to in a forthcoming essay for Mere-O), I appreciated this assessment from Timothy Shenk at Dissent of where things are […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsCriminal JusticedrugsHealth & Medicine

"legalizing marijuana won't solve those disparities" - Doctors Without Boredom

I found this interview with Alex Berenson, who just wrote a new book about the dangers of marijuana, very interesting and well-balanced: TMP: In your Times op-ed, you suggest that the ominous scholarly findings have been ignored thanks to legalization advocates […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsCriminal JusticedrugsHealth & Medicine

"legalizing marijuana won't solve those disparities" - Doctors Without Boredom

I found this interview with Alex Berenson, who just wrote a new book about the dangers of marijuana, very interesting and well-balanced: TMP: In your Times op-ed, you suggest that the ominous scholarly findings have been ignored thanks to legalization advocates […]