Is Empathy a Sin? (with Tim Muehlhoff)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Is empathy being weaponized by Progressives to manipulate Christians into adopting certain ethical and political views? Is empathy a virtue, or merely an emotion that is sometimes a valuable and important means of loving people? There have been a myriad of Christians books and podcasts on this topic, and so Sean has invited Biola communications professor Tim Muehlhoff to discuss and debate these issues and more. Enjoy! Tim Muehlhoff received his Ph.D. in Communication Studies at the Universit...

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0:37.9	Space is limited, but you can register now at biola.edu slash anchored.
0:45.6	Is empathy a sin?
0:48.1	What's a bigger concern today?
0:49.8	A lack of empathy in our culture and a lack of empathy among Christians towards outsiders, or
0:56.7	empathy being weaponized against Christians to adopt progressive views. Let's just say this has been a
1:04.1	huge topic of conversation. We welcome back Tim Mielhoff, Biola Professor, co-author of mine,
1:10.4	we wrote a book together called End the Stailmate.
1:13.2	Last year, it was either number one or two of all the conversations we had, Tim, on our whole podcast,
1:19.3	our friendly debate about pronouns.
1:22.5	So we've been trying to have a follow-up discussion slash friendly debate on a topic.
1:29.2	You suggested this one.
1:35.7	And in many ways, this topic kind of overlaps with the topic of pronouns. What does empathy and compassion look like? So thanks for coming back. But let's start with, I'm really curious
1:41.4	why this topic interested you to have a deep dive conversation
1:45.3	about it.
1:45.7	Well, first, thanks for having me back.
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