Is Empathy a Sin?
Good Faith
Good Faith
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In a special Christmas episode, David French and Curtis Chang talk about the ultimate act of empathy (God becoming human) and the somewhat surprising debate going on in certain corners of the evangelical church; the idea that empathy can be a sin. How far should we go to understand another's pain? Does empathy require moral agreement? Is our empathy sometimes selective, reserved for those we agree with and withheld from those we don't?
David and Curtis also dig into some reader mail for a fascinating discussion of the issue of abortion and some surprising realities that may show why pro-life Christians should look beyond the mere legal rules established under Roe v. Wade.
Show Notes:
-Joe Rigney: The Enticing Sin of Empathy
-The French Press: The American Crisis of Selective Empathy
-The French Press: Satanic Pregnancies, Explained
-C.S. Lewis: The Screwtape Letters (Amazon)
-Kate Shellnutt: Bethlehem Baptist Leaders Clash Over 'Coddling' and 'Cancel Culture'
-The French Press: The Pro-Life Movement Must Transcend Politics
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, this is Curtis and I am excited to tell you about a new feature of the Good |
| 0:06.4 | Faith Podcast and it's called Camp Fire Stories. |
| 0:10.8 | Now, in a great campfire, everyone has the opportunity to share their stories and so in |
| 0:17.2 | campfire stories, we want to hear from you. |
| 0:20.3 | We want to hear a story about what you are doing along the themes of the Good Faith |
| 0:25.8 | Podcast, perhaps it's something about how you're living out your relationships with |
| 0:31.0 | political polarization, how you are trying to reflect the image of God in your institution |
| 0:36.3 | and organization, or what you're doing with your money or your vocation, anything that |
| 0:41.2 | has been sparked by the themes that we've covered here in the Good Faith Podcast is |
| 0:46.6 | fear game. |
| 0:47.6 | It doesn't matter if it's a big story, a small story, or something in between, as long |
| 0:52.0 | as it's a story about what you are doing in your life, we're not so much interested |
| 0:56.6 | in hearing just thoughts, we want to hear stories of doing. |
| 1:01.2 | So we'll put a link in the show notes where you can just click on it and then supply us |
| 1:05.9 | the basic outlines of your story of doing, of living out the themes of Good Faith Podcast |
| 1:11.8 | and we'll look at it and we may invite you to share that story on a Good Faith blog, |
| 1:18.2 | a social media, or perhaps even invite you to come on the Good Faith show yourself and |
| 1:23.4 | talk to me and share your story like, how cool would that be? |
| 1:26.6 | I'd love to hear from you. |
| 1:27.7 | I'd love to talk with you. |
| 1:29.2 | So please consider joining the campfire by actually joining actively and sharing your |
| 1:35.1 | story with others gathered around the campfire. |
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