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Matthew LoftusEthicsEducation
When I was in college, I spent three summers living in Kenya and working in Kibera, an urban slum that is home to over a million people. It was there that I first felt called to long-term cross-cultural work, worked […]
Matthew LoftusEthics
Decades after the Civil Rights Act and the end of Jim Crow, it’s clear that American attempts to reckon with racial injustices have been insufficient. But what could we have done — or do — differently? Anthony Bradley has a […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyEthics
This op-ed from the New York Times about raising a child in a world facing environmental crisis is moving, even if you disagree with its premises: Living ethically means understanding that our actions have consequences, taking responsibility for how those […]
Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine
The Christian Journal for Global Health is an underappreciated source of interesting articles and original research. I wanted to highlight a recent article reflecting on the Ebola crisis and the risk taken by health professionals (both African and non-African) to […]
Matthew LoftusEthics
I’m delighted to see that The Center for the Study of Ethics and Technology is relaunching: Our efforts will also reflect our commitment to thinking historically about technology. Again, under the temporal pressures of digital culture, we fail to think […]
Matthew LoftusEthicsEducationHealth & Medicine
Medical professionals appeal to professionalism to guide their moral and ethical decision-making, but this is simply insufficient for the problems we face.
Matthew LoftusEthics
Matthew Arbo reflects on Oliver O'Donovan's doctrine of creation and its implications for science and ethics.
Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthics
Emmanuel Katongole's book is necessary reading for missionaries and anyone who relies on the trope of "tribalism" to explain violence in Africa.
Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine
This essay from Joy Pedrow Skarka about pain and sex says some things that need to be heard: After our wedding, riding the elevator up to our hotel room, I looked into my groom’s eyes and saw excitement. We had […]
Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine
Thinking about how to eliminate America's child death discrepancy means asking hard questions about how we will collectively sacrifice.
Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine
The story of Jahi McMath illustrates how tenuous the idea of "brain death" really is.
Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedEthicsCurrent Politics
The uncritical assumption that one must support the adoption tax credit in order to claim the label "pro-life" is overly simple and unhelpful.