Is ‘Toxic Empathy’ Pulling Christians to the Left?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

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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