Is Empathy Bad for Your Health?

We got wind of an odd idea in American evangelicalism: some are provocatively and or implicitly saying that empathy is a sin. It leads, it seems, to too much tolerance and not enough doctrinal purity. We discuss this, a negative article written about Jeff and his views on science at church related universities, and why we had to take bit of a pause for the last few weeks of our road trip down from Portland.

Stuff We Mention

A Christianity Today Article: “Bethlehem Baptist Leaders Clash Over ‘Coddling’ and ‘Cancel Culture’”

An article against Jeff in the Christian News

Joe Rigney’s “Enticing Sin of Empathy” essay

The ever alarming Doug Wilson

The questionable John Piper

Wedding photo

Josh Swamidass’ book The Genealogical Adam and Eve

A poem about dying on the right hills

Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four in the White House