Allie Stuckey wrote a book titled, Toxic Empathy to confront how liberals weaponize emotional manipulation. At the same time, Joe Rigney’s The Sin of Empathy debuted appearing to argue that empathy is a counterfeit of compassion. The debate over empathy is on in Evangelicalism and for good reason. The term empathy has been popularized in the church over the last several decades despite having next to zero usage in the Christian tradition.
Allie Stuckey wrote a book titled, Toxic Empathy to confront how liberals weaponize emotional manipulation. At the same time, Joe Rigney’s The Sin of Empathy debuted appearing to argue that empathy is a counterfeit of compassion. The debate over empathy is on in Evangelicalism and for good reason. The term empathy has been popularized in the church over the last several decades despite having next to zero usage in the Christian tradition.