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Matthew Loftus 🧻

@matthewloftus.bsky.social
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I'm a family doctor teaching & practicing at a mission hospital in Kenya. our family website is: matthewandmaggie.org and you can sign up for family email updates there!

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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote about what Medicare For All can and can't fix for @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2026/10/heal...
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Every Health Care System Sometimes Says No - Christianity Today
Medical programs are full of hard decisions about what to pay for and what to deny. What is the best option?
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Shout it from the rooftops
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bad schools don't teach the kids but they also expose kids to all kinds of behavior that they shouldn't have to be exposed to at that age.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tran & Smith: Anti-Xian Nationalism "turns out to go the other way, not from the phenomenon of partisan politics to scientific study aimed at understanding it, but rather from preset political partisanship to the suggestion of an empirical point of departure. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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On Christian Nationalism
Click on the article title to read more.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Teamed up with Samuel James to write about porn brain and how porn is bad for all of us when men started getting locked in to hyperreality: thedispatch.com/article/porn...
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Porn Brain Will Destroy Us
On a pernicious attitude with bleak consequences for relationships.
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InterVarsity Press (USA) @ivpress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How has therapy culture shaped our lives in the church context? How can Christian communities embrace the evident gifts of therapy with wisdom? Watch him Dr. Matthew Loftus discuss his new book, 'Resisting Therapy Culture': www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xIHdts2aaE
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I've always wanted to do this one: my piece on the "terrorist charity" of late antiquity. The parabalani or "reckless ones" did some great stuff for the Church. They also killed people and started riots. Here's what we can learn from history: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/08/the-...
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The ‘Terrorist Charity’ of Late Antiquity - Christianity Today
Bands of young men in the early church helped the sick and poor. They also started riots, and their history has lessons for us now.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One of my favorite essays of the year.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
for better or for worse I seem to have reached a steady state where no one reads my bleats anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here's an annotated bibliography of the works that were most helpful to me as I wrote the book: matthewandmaggie.org/2026/08/18/a...
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Annotated Bibliography for Resisting Therapy Culture
An annotated bibliography featuring the books that helped me the most as I was writing Resisting Therapy Culture.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My book RESISTING THERAPY CULTURE is out today! It's about how medicalizing normal life experiences makes people psychologically sicker by draining their agency, and what a better approach to mental health looks like, especially within the Church. You can buy it now: www.amazon.com/Resisting-Th...
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Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond: Loftus, Matthew, Noble, Alan: 9781514012680: Amazon.com: Books
Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond [Loftus, Matthew, Noble, Alan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Resisting Therapy Culture: T...
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I've got 2 live events coming up to discuss RESISTING THERAPY CULTURE: August 14th at 1:30pm Eastern with the Trinity Forum: ttf.org/events/onlin... August 25th at 11:30am Central with Mere Orthodoxy: mereorthodoxy.com/forum/
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Online Forum
Live conversations with Mere Orthodoxy writers and editors. Register for the next forum.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Once it clicks that the White House deliberately chooses memes, songs, and movies that they think will get a rise out of libs it's pretty easy to tune this stuff out. Basically the government doing "do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world?" because it's bored of the war in Iran.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I'm grateful for the opportunity I had to go on the That'll Preach podcast and talk about Resisting Therapy Culture, human agency, and how to know when you or someone you love ought to see a mental health professional: thatllpreach.io/episode/resi...
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Resisting Therapy Culture — with Matthew Loftus | That’ll Preach Podcast: Biblically Informed. Slightly Irreverent.
Therapeutic language now shapes how we see almost everything — including the church. Increasingly, congregations and their leaders are judged by standards of...
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Ebola epidemic looking bad. Violence/insecurity in the region, attacks on health workers, weak supply chains, etc. all contributing to a dangerous growth curve. www.cdc.gov/ebola/situat...
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
and Kenyatta is one of the more well-equipped and staffed government hospitals!
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Mission hospitals did great work in the 20th century, but are they obsolete now? Some Christians think so: after all, they are expensive, prone to dependency, and facing major headwinds. Yet I still think they’re vital for missions in the 21st century: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/07/miss...
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Where Do Mission Hospitals Fit in the 21st Century? - Christianity Today
They’re expensive, are difficult to staff, and must compete with government and private institutions—but they are still essential.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Very grateful that @emilybelz.bsky.social came out to our hospital and others to see what effect the U.S. aid cuts had on people and how we've adapted: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/07/hiv-...
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After US Aid Cuts, the Sick Wonder Who Will Visit Them - Christianity Today
One year after the US shuttered USAID and cut HIV funding, faith-based institutions struggle to stay in touch with rural patients who might fall through the cracks.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I hate running. But I do it anyway. So I formed the Running Haters Running Club with a buddy: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/06/the-...
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The Running Haters Running Club - Christianity Today
Jesus Christ shared in our frailty, and we honor our Creator by exercising our bodies according to his design.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I wrote about Elon Musk, DOGE's destruction of USAID, why accurate estimates of how many people have died matter when it comes to holding people accountable: www.dailywire.com/news/how-man...
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How Many People Did DOGE Really Kill?
This week, Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna said that Elon Musk should be held accountable for “4.5 million children around the world who he possibly sentenced to death by dismantling USAID.” Back in ...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 24/06/2026
A doctor returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola in France, the country’s Ministry of Health announced today.
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France reports Ebola case in doctor returning from Congo
It is the first case of Ebola reported in France since the start of the current outbreak.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I wrote about how masculinity is getting medicalized with the inappropriate use of testosterone therapy: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/06/you-...
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You Don’t Need Testosterone Therapy - Christianity Today
Hormone supplements are trendy but often not medically necessary. Even as our bodies weaken and age, we can grow in spiritual strength.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
yeah, it's challenging because I think there's a lot more evidence about COVID vaccination than any other kind but AFAIK no one has looked at vaccine hesitancy by, say, weekly church attendance or any other metric of adherence.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
probably more like winning a fistfight with a bear in terms of the level of discontinuity with reality but yeah. But then at that point it seems less likely that a guy who has a normal relationship to reality would bother listening to those guys for any reason besides prurient interest.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I wrote about Kira Ganga Kieffer's book, UNVACCINATED UNDER GOD, about religion and vaccine hesitancy. It's got some good threads about spirituality and vaccines but fails to stitch them together: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/05/vacc...
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I wrote about why too much mental health awareness could be bad for your health: www.dailywire.com/news/are-we-...
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Are We Creating Mental Illness? The Hidden Forces Turning Stress Into Sickness
This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you.***Could mental health awareness be makin...
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
You can now read a sample chapter from my book RESISTING THERAPY CULTURE at IVP's website! ivpress.com/resisting-th...
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Resisting Therapy Culture
<p><strong>Let Churches Be Churches and Therapists Be Therapists </strong></p><p>We live in an age where "therapy culture" dominates our cultural milieu. Everywhere we
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
When we politely lie to people and tell them that they are not burdens, they are pressured to reciprocate with an untruth of their own and say that they are willing to be killed via assisted suicide. The truth? "Everyone is eventually a burden." www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...
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Everyone Is Eventually a Burden
As laws permitting medically assisted death advance, how will we learn to accept diminishment rather than kill ourselves?
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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 23/04/2026
I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.
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Michael @electronicmichael.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Are you on social media? Do not delete your account. Are you off social media? Do not get an account. But if you post you do not sin, and if a person with no social media joins, she does not sin. Yet those who post will experience distress in this life, and I would spare you that."⚓️🕯️
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The New Christendom has already here. And it's... a fandom. The most understated savagery you'll see this year from John Ehrett. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The New Christendom Already Exists Online
"Christian nationalism" already exists in cyberspace. It will probably stay there.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health.

When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.”

Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
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O. Alan Noble @oalannoble.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Today I tackled a morally tricky but personally important issue for me: the question of culpability when it comes to mental illness and how to make amends. newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/am-i-at-fa...
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I wrote about Restorative Reproductive Medicine for this month's column at CT. My verdict? It's not the cure-all some promise, but it would be better for all of medicine to be more like RRM. www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/fert...
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Fertility Treatment Beyond the Quick Fix - Christianity Today
Restorative reproductive medicine is a great idea and can honor traditional Christian teachings on marriage, children, and sex. Just don’t oversell it.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
tfw ur priest is soft on crime
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Here's something I wrote while I was off social media for Lent about Casey Means and how she talks like someone who just hasn't taken care of enough sick people in her career. www.christianitytoday.com/2026/03/we-s...
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We Should Demand More from MAHA - Christianity Today
RFK Jr. and surgeon general nominee Casey Means identify real problems in American health and medicine. But their solutions are lacking.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Happy Easter, friends! Here are some pictures I took from the top of Mt. Kenya yesterday with my family.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I wrote about why killing people is not the same as allowing them to die and why that matters for our debates about euthanasia: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/02/kill...
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Killing People Is Not the Same as Allowing Them to Die - Christianity Today
And the church of Jesus Christ has to offer people a better way of thinking about life and dependence if we want to push against the horrors of euthanasia.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
If you're curious to find out more about why I wrote the book and what's in it, InterVarsity Press and I cooked up a little PDF explaining what it's all about: www.ivpress.com/Media/Defaul...
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My book has a cover! I wish I could share it with you right now, but unfortunately you'll have to wait until August 18, 2026. But you can preorder it now if you want. www.amazon.com/Resisting-Th...
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Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I wrote about vaccines, wisdom, and doing your own research for @christianitytoday.bsky.social : www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/how-...
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How to Do Your Own Research About Vaccines - Christianity Today
A doctor shows how to inoculate yourself against foolishness with a shot of wisdom.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
it's funny (sad) how there is exactly one financial relationship that Basham will never, ever criticize and it involves a gay heretic
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Denmark's geopolitical superpower is how even the most powerful leaders turn into happy little kids when they get a cool Lego model
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
me too
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
there have been multiple stories of middle school girls getting harassed with generated CP of themselves over the past few years and somehow the only AI fear that seems to stick is the fucking water if i was more conspiratorial i'd think it's a psyop
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The authoritative reflection on It's a Wonderful Life for our time.
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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I wrote about how people misunderstand porn--particularly the wrongheaded notion that if a wife simply pretends to be her husband's "personal porn star" that it will cure his porn addiction: mereorthodoxy.com/misunderstanding-porn
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Misunderstanding Porn
Dismissing a porn addiction as being a problem of unfulfilled sexual desire radically misunderstands why people turn to pornography in the first place.
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