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Is ‘Toxic Empathy’ Pulling Christians to the Left?
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The conservative Christian podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey joins Ross on “Interesting Times” this week to explain why “toxic empathy” has a stranglehold on politics, whether evangelical Christians have a red line President Trump could cross and why her commentary has echoes of Phyllis Schlafly.
- 01:26 “The New Phyllis Schlafly”
- 9:46 Untangling the web of Evangelical Protestants
- 15:50 Female authority in the church
- 22:12 What is “toxic empathy”?
- 30:55 Toxic empathy and cruelty in American politics
- 40:19 Do conservative christians have a red line?
- 57:24 “The mushy middle”
(A full transcript of this episode is available on the Times website.)
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