If God is Love, Why are Christians Afraid of Empathy? with John Pavlovitz

Empathy is increasingly being framed as a threat to truth, but John Pavlovitz argues it’s not weakness, it’s a strength that Jesus modeled even as he confronted harmful systems.

This episode covers Christian masculinity and the ways we define strength, the grief of leaving fear-based theology, deconstruction and the spiritual exhaustion that comes with trying to embody the words and ways of Jesus in a divided world.

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