Jesus’s message and parables push against current rightwing Christian attacks on empathy.
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Jesus’s Radical Empathy – Nothing Toxic about It
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Touching the Divine through Poetry
Think of religious visionaries as the early poets, those who have found ways to gesture towards (not encapsulate!) the divine. The religious poets who have come after help keep religious language from getting stale.