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.
What truly defines education? Is it merely a tool for power, or is there a deeper pursuit of truth, wisdom, beauty, and virtue? Academia faces an ongoing battle for its soul.
Higher education faces a crisis of purpose, with its moral and intellectual foundations eroded by modernism and postmodernism.
Early Americans saw intelligence and love in tension. But Latter-day Saint doctrine understood God’s nature differently.
As long as we love ourselves more, so the popular precept goes, our happiness will also grow. Is that really true? Not if our self-love disregards the reality of truth and our need to love that most.
Increasingly, older and senior members of our communities are seen as backward and not worth considering. That’s a mistake. General Conference will provide an opportunity to listen to the hard-earned wisdom of age that we should seek for.
Lots of people read lots of things these days. But it’s a very different kind of reading than before. Here’s why that should worry us.
Five books that contain sentences and paragraphs and pages full of unique ideas that move our minds, touch our hearts, and fill our souls with light.
Five books that contain sentences and paragraphs and pages full of unique ideas that move our minds, touch our hearts, and fill our souls with light.
Five books that contain sentences, paragraphs, and pages full of unique ideas that move our minds, touch our hearts, and fill our souls with light.
