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Matthew LoftusEthics

the four-paned window - Doctors Without Boredom

I like Carl Ellis’ take on the four-paned window of Biblical righteousness: If we pair these dimensions in all possible combinations, we get four manifestations of righteousness: personal piety, social piety, personal justice, and social justice. This can be illustrated by the […]

Matthew LoftusEthics

the four-paned window - Doctors Without Boredom

I like Carl Ellis’ take on the four-paned window of Biblical righteousness: If we pair these dimensions in all possible combinations, we get four manifestations of righteousness: personal piety, social piety, personal justice, and social justice. This can be illustrated by the […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyEthics

the temptations of social media - Doctors Without Boredom

All of us wrestle with how to use social media and Andrew Peterson has a thought-provoking post up about how and why he’s been using it less and less — but also why that’s not an easy decision: Okay, so […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyEthics

the temptations of social media - Doctors Without Boredom

All of us wrestle with how to use social media and Andrew Peterson has a thought-provoking post up about how and why he’s been using it less and less — but also why that’s not an easy decision: Okay, so […]

Matthew LoftusEthics

"I was hurting and she was trying to make sure I was OK" - Doctors Without Boredom

Sorry there were no blog posts last week. I traveled from one side of the country to the other (literally!) and was swamped with work and other very important things. The regular posting schedule resumes this week.  This story about […]

Matthew LoftusEthics

"I was hurting and she was trying to make sure I was OK" - Doctors Without Boredom

Sorry there were no blog posts last week. I traveled from one side of the country to the other (literally!) and was swamped with work and other very important things. The regular posting schedule resumes this week.  This story about […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine

CTE , football, and black men - Doctors Without Boredom

Bradford William Davis has an excellent interview with Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian-born neuropathologist who is sounding the alarm on chronic traumatic encephalopathy: If you ask Omalu today, he’ll tell you that you should never, ever play football again. In […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsHealth & Medicine

CTE , football, and black men - Doctors Without Boredom

Bradford William Davis has an excellent interview with Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian-born neuropathologist who is sounding the alarm on chronic traumatic encephalopathy: If you ask Omalu today, he’ll tell you that you should never, ever play football again. In […]

Matthew LoftusEthics

limits appropriate to the human condition - Doctors Without Boredom

It seems that a lot of criticism of technology criticism goes along the lines of “it’s not the technology, it’s user error” — and along with this critique is often the very Whiggish idea that if we just come up […]

Matthew LoftusEthics

limits appropriate to the human condition - Doctors Without Boredom

It seems that a lot of criticism of technology criticism goes along the lines of “it’s not the technology, it’s user error” — and along with this critique is often the very Whiggish idea that if we just come up […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsEducation

community impact - Doctors Without Boredom

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 LoftusEthicsEducation

community impact - Doctors Without Boredom

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 […]