Dialogue
Empathy or Echo Chambers?
Misguided empathy can harm. True understanding demands not just listening but deep knowledge and open hearts.
Dan Ellsworth
April 12, 2024
Misguided empathy can harm. True understanding demands not just listening but deep knowledge and open hearts.
It’s natural to wonder about the future for those navigating the intersections of faith, sexuality, gender and identity. I believe that future can be filled with peace, happiness and love beyond even their fondest imagination.
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Messages of light emerging from darkness are so common as to be almost cliché. Until you experience it yourself. Like I did in an unusually cold, isolated Texas in February.
All across the globe, people have different theories of what went wrong with the Meghan and Harry fairytale. Most explanations, however, offer little hope of any redemption from the mess. There is one notable exception.
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More empathy for the difficulties, fears, and frustrations of others ought to help us move forward together despite political differences. These eleven books have helped me deepen my understanding of poverty in America.