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Nov 25, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Matthew Loftus
If Donald Trump's victory has you worried about the vulnerable, you can do something more-and better-than posting about it. Illustration by Elizabeth Kaye / Source Images: GettyFor many Americans, the results of our recent election inspired some measure of despair, fear, and anger. Sometimes these reactions come out online as threats to cut off relationships with family and friends who voted for Republicans.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
bonniekristian.substack.com | Bonnie Kristian |Musa al-Gharbi |Matthew Loftus |Yuval Levin
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, and here’s this week’s post. By now, many Democrats’ why we lost narratives of the 2024 election are fairly measured. Particularly compared to this time in 2016, and especially at The New York Times, I’m seeing much less how could this happen?or look what those white women did!and more yeah, we had this comingand have for years. I’m guessing ’s book, We Have Never Been Woke, (see the review at CT if you haven’t yet) is selling well.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
plough.com | Matthew Loftus
It was always a big deal when a new shipping container arrived at our hospital for women and children in South Sudan. Hospitals or charitable organizations would donate supplies from time to time; it took months for the containers to travel across the world, clear customs, and then arrive by truck. We eagerly unlocked the big metal doors wondering what was inside: Gauze? Non-expired drugs? Surgical drapes to replace the ones that were fraying from constant use?
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May 28, 2024 | 
mereorthodoxy.com | Matthew Loftus
Matthew Loftus Matthew Loftus teaches and practices Family Medicine in Baltimore and East Africa. His work has been featured in Christianity Today, Comment, & First Things and he is a regular contributor for Christ and Pop Culture. You can learn more about his work and writing at www.MatthewAndMaggie.org
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
mereorthodoxy.com | Matthew Loftus
I have been looking forward to reading Abigail Shrier’s new book Bad Therapy for a while. I’ve personally dealt with mental illness for a long time. I’m a family physician whose primary professional focus for the past several years has been delivering mental health care to people who previously had no access to it. I’m a parent trying to raise my kids in a cultural milieu that’s… well, a bit crazy.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
mereorthodoxy.com | Matthew Loftus
"The best thing conservatives can do to reclaim the culture is have a bunch of kids and homeschool them.” This is a quote from a prominent conservative commentator from a few years ago, but one can find a similar sentiment on a frequent basis on your social medium of choice. It's an inspiring idea, consonant with the rising pronatalism conservatives are trying to stir up.
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May 1, 2023 | 
blogs.mereorthodoxy.com | Matthew Loftus
First Things was gracious enough to publish my brief argument for single-payer health care from a conservative, Christian perspective. There was a lot that had to be cut due to space and a lot that I didn’t write simply because to do so would make a web essay bloated. Honestly, a short book is really about the length that one needs in order to make an argument that anticipates counterarguments, provides space for digressions about particular issues, etc.
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Apr 25, 2023 | 
firstthings.com | Matthew Loftus
Caring for one another’s bodies, particularly the bodies of the vulnerable, is one of the most profound ways we can fulfill our duty to each other. The simple fact of a person’s existence obligates others to care for that person; this ethic underlies our commitment to protecting the unborn.
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Apr 17, 2023 | 
plough.com | Matthew Loftus
Parenting, by nature, means to seek to keep our children from experiencing unnecessary pain. We force our children to wear helmets, carefully supervise their first interactions with dangerous tools, and warn them about interacting with people who could physically or emotionally harm them. Our children rely on us to be safe, and it is our duty to protect them. For some parents, this duty presents a vexing question even prior to their children being born.
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Feb 11, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Matthew Loftus
The GOP Has a 2024 ProblemThis is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.By this time in an American president’s term, the next presidential race is typically in full swing. But the GOP’s Trump problem is making the 2024 race an unusual one.First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic. American Christianity is due for a revival.
