Matthew Loftus 🧻

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.

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...

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...

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...

This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

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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.

I wrote about vaccines, wisdom, and doing your own research for @christianitytoday.bsky.social :

www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/how-...

it's funny (sad) how there is exactly one financial relationship that Basham will never, ever criticize and it involves a gay heretic

Denmark's geopolitical superpower is how even the most powerful leaders turn into happy little kids when they get a cool Lego model

me too

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

The authoritative reflection on It's a Wonderful Life for our time.

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.

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

Missionary pilot remains missing 2 months after kidnapping in Niger Nearly two months since American missionary pilot Kevin Rideout was kidnapped from his home in the highly secure Ch teau 1 neighborhood of Niamey in the capital of Niger in West Africa, local

Merry Christmas, everyone! Please remember in your prayers Kevin Rideout, an American missionary pilot kidnapped in Niger back in November.

www.christianpost.com/news/kidnapp...

tfw u learn about all the doctrines of grace:

YouTube video by The Trinity Forum The Inaugural Michael J. Gerson Award for Excellence in Writing on Faith and Public Life

Video from last week's Trinity Forum Michael Gerson Memorial Prize event is now up! (My speech is at the very end, for those curious.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkzE...

The Michael J. Gerson Memorial Prize - The Trinity Forum On November 17, 2025, the Trinity Forum will award the first annual Michael J. Gerson Memorial Prize for Excellence in Writing on Faith and Public Life.

Some news: ttf.org/gerson-prize/

I don't think this is going to work. The Case for Christian Nationalism is almost entirely exegesis-free; they very deliberately state that tradition/natural law is necessary to discern a coherent political theology and quite frankly, I agree with them on that!

I don't need any gender fetishism, no. I think that looking at the world and saying "who needs the most support to flourish in the world? huh, looks like 'moms' and 'small kids' are big categories there!" is more than enough for me.

yeah, I think society should be more supportive of people the more dependent they are. if that means subsidizing drugs for prostatic hypertrophy because every old man's prostate blows up eventually so that old men are less likely to get renal failure, yeah. what that says about ontology idk.

no, what gives you the impression that either Leah or I believe that?

I mean the fundamental biological reality that women are more likely over their lifetimes to require aid from people around them in order to give birth and nurture children; society should orient itself around making this process less arduous and isolating for mothers as possible.

Dependence Leah Libresco Sargeant on an illiberalism of the weak.

this (although she has written a book expanding on these themes) www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...

yeah: we're all dependent by virtue of being human, women are more so. what's wrong with that?

that's Leah's point; she starts off by saying "we're all dependent, that's part of being human"

A magazine list showing #37, Zohran Mamdani, age 11, asked for Books, FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 video games.

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor

Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

MAHA, Medicalization, Karma, and Control Clean living is more likely to lead to a healthy life. How likely is the question.

I wrote about how the official statements of RFK Jr. and his HHS add up to an obsession with control, a suspicion of germ theory, and a medicalized Prosperity Gospel. We need to deconstruct MAHA and rebuild it.
mereorthodoxy.com/maha-medical...

George Santos has a newfound mission: prison reform Republican Representative George Santos wants to work on prison reform now that Trump has commuted his sentence

I fully expected George Santos to be President one day. Dare I hope that he might be our generation's Chuck Colson?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

When Your Doctor Gets to Know You Health gets better when you and your doctor have a relationship.

Everyone knows that a relationship with your primary care doctor is good. Did you know that relationship decreases mortality over time? I'm at @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social today:

thedispatch.com/article/prim...

I Was the Enemy Jesus Told You to Love - Christianity Today As an extremist Muslim, I beat a Christian boy and left him to die. His faithful prayers for me led to my salvation.

"When he was beneath our tree, we ambushed him, beating him mercilessly with our fists and rifle butts. In a frenzy, I stabbed him repeatedly with my bayonet.

'Allahu Akbar,' I muttered in pride as we walked away from his mangled body."
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/enem...