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Andy HoodHealth & MedicineFormation

The Distortion of Vulnerability

Weber's ‘iron cage’ of modernity distorts Christian life and community in countless ways. One of the most pertinent concerns the idea of vulnerability.

Matthew ArboHealth & MedicineFormationMental Health

We Would Rather Be Ruined Than Changed: Anxiety as a Moral Concept

Anxiety should not be pathologized, for then we will not recognize it as a normal part of being human or as something that can be endured with divine help.

Jake MeadorCultureHealth & MedicineFilm Reviews/Hollywood

The End of Choice

Two recent essays, one in New York and the other at The Free Press, further demonstrate how inhumane and starved for love our cultural moment truly is.

Brewer EberlyTechnologyHealth & MedicineLiterature

Heads in the Heavens (or in Hell)

Our contemporary sickness of seeking does not deliver what it promises, instead leaving us lost, distraught, and alone.

Brewer Eberly and Ben FrushHealth & Medicine

Teach Us to Number Our Days: Health Anxiety and Faithful Anticipation

In a time when many look to medicine as a way to control health and deny death, Christianity can speak a better word.

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 […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

what role do traditional healers have in a modern healthcare system? - Doctors Without Boredom

On the fence just down the street from the hospital where I work in Kenya, there is a sign for a “Dr. Musa” promising treatments for everything from “business” to “male strength”. Sometimes as I walk through town, I will […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

what role do traditional healers have in a modern healthcare system? - Doctors Without Boredom

On the fence just down the street from the hospital where I work in Kenya, there is a sign for a “Dr. Musa” promising treatments for everything from “business” to “male strength”. Sometimes as I walk through town, I will […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsEducationHealth & Medicine

more on teaching professionalism to medical students - Doctors Without Boredom

After reading Brewer Eberly’s great piece on the main site about virtue ethics and the Reformed tradition, I was delighted to find this reflection from him about teaching professionalism to medical students: And yet, medical students may be disconnected from moral […]

Matthew LoftusEthicsEducationHealth & Medicine

more on teaching professionalism to medical students - Doctors Without Boredom

After reading Brewer Eberly’s great piece on the main site about virtue ethics and the Reformed tradition, I was delighted to find this reflection from him about teaching professionalism to medical students: And yet, medical students may be disconnected from moral […]

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

preventing suicide with text messages - Doctors Without Boredom

This article on the work of Dr. Jerome Motto and the therapists carrying on his work today is fascinating: The most pivotal response was sent to Douglas Kreider, one of Motto’s researchers, by a study participant who lived in an […]