Status Updates From The Sin of Empathy: Compass...

Really enjoying the middle of the book. Chapter 4: Living Under the Progressive Gaze was particularly clear, timely and helpful. I will likely recommend this chapter to other pastors.

I was really surprised to learn how recent of a term empathy was. One of the key takeaways from the chapter is Sympathy is to suffer with someone verses empathy which is to suffer in someone (or to put it in another way to suffer as someone). Fav quote this chapter “Sympathy willingly joins with sufferers in their pain. Empathy makes their suffering our own in a more universal and totalizing way.”

Untruthful pity. Untethered empathy. These are the counterfeits of compassion.