Christianity Today ran this as a “Speaking Out” opinion column on December 2, 2022.
I have seen this before. [ . . . ]
Tag: Empathy
Originally published at Mending the Soul
Seven years into my first pastorate, a young lady in our church told me her story of being sexually abused as a little girl. She was deadpan as she recounted the events, mirroring the blank response her parents had given as they reinterpreted her report into something less horrific. I felt all the things for her any human being would—sorrow, anger, grief. I was sympathetic. [ . . . ]
Originally posted on August 24th, 2017 by my friend Jennifer Phillips and later by our local paper, this was my response to the white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, VA and President Trump’s comments about them.
I wasn’t alive in 1962 for the Cuban missile crisis. The only part of the Cold War I lived through was too consumed with Knight Rider and G.I. Joe’s for me to absorb any of the concerns over Soviet Union nukes. But I think it’s fair to say that the Cold War created an ambient terror in America. A low-grade, incessant concern hung in the air that something radically life-altering could happen at any time. [ . . . ]
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