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The so-called virtue of empathy is the greatest rhetorical tool of manipulation in the 21st century.
Because love is a real virtue, empathy’s power is in posing as selfless care for victims.
A sad polar bear paces as David Attenborough informs you that the family suburban is melting the ice caps.
“Jesus was an asylum seeker!” the sign reads at an Open Borders Rally.
A forlorn Bruno wishes he too could change in the women’s locker room, a place he’s always known he belonged.
“My mom said if we don’t go she’ll be just devastated.”
When you reject the sin of empathy, you reject the manipulation of the media, the manipulation of family and friends, and most importantly, the manipulation of your own heart.
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- By: Michael Foster, Dominic Bnonn Tennant
- Narrated by: Wade Stotts
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Our modern society has called for us to “smash the patriarchy”, and the church has not done much better. Instead of telling men how they can hone and refine their aggressive traits, the church has told men that they should aspire to be meek servant-leaders, and when a man shows any signs of independence, he is shown the door. Men are supposed to found households, join brotherhoods, and work toward a mission. God made men to be strong and aggressive risk-takers. This is a feature, not a bug. Foster and Tennant remind us that it’s good to be a man.
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Excellent read
- By Liz Layne on 02-05-22
By: Michael Foster, and others
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Blessed Are the Spiraling
- How the Chaotic Search for Significance Can Lead to Joy Through Life’s Shifting Seasons
- By: Levi Lusko
- Narrated by: Levi Lusko
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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The whirlwind of chaos and confusion barreling toward you has likely caught you completely off guard. Maybe you're navigating a season of transition—a career shift, a major life adjustment, or just an unshakable sense of disorientation. When the things that once brought fulfillment no longer seem to work, when the familiar feels foreign, and when life feels like it's slipped out of your control, you're actually in the perfect position for God to lead you to greater heights.
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Authentic Pastor
- By Tanner Salois on 04-16-25
By: Levi Lusko
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Happy Lies
- How a Movement You (Probably) Never Heard of Shaped Our Self-Obsessed World
- By: Melissa Dougherty
- Narrated by: Melissa Dougherty
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Have you ever wondered how we ended up in a world where personal feelings could become the authority for reality? Or why so many of us are on a relentless pursuit for happiness yet somehow feel more exhausted and sadder than ever? You're not alone. Melissa deftly traces the roots of today's social chaos back to a little-known (but very influential) 1800s philosophy known as New Thought
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So good
- By Casper Martin on 02-23-25
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Shepherds for Sale
- How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
- By: Megan Basham
- Narrated by: Megan Basham
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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In Shepherds for Sale, Megan Basham of the Daily Wire documents how progressive powerbrokers—from George Soros, to the founder of eBay, to former members of the Obama administration—set out to change the American church. Their goal: to co-opt evangelicals for political purposes.
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Mostly a hit, with the exception of not being Baptist.
- By Doug Drader on 07-31-24
By: Megan Basham
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Seeing the Supernatural
- Investigating Angels, Demons, Mystical Dreams, Near-Death Encounters, and Other Mysteries of the Unseen World
- By: Lee Strobel
- Narrated by: Lee Strobel
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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We hear stories all the time about the supernatural—miraculous healings, unexplained sightings, near-death experiences—but how do we know what is real? Are rumors of spiritual beings, healings, and prophetic dreams dangerous deceptions, or is there something important for us to explore? Join investigative journalist and former atheist Lee Strobel as he examines the evidence and considers how we should think about the unseen world—and the God who made and rules over it.
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Blessed Assurance
- By Ahmed on 03-27-25
By: Lee Strobel
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Becoming the Pastor's Wife
- How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
- By: Beth Allison Barr
- Narrated by: Connie Shabshab
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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As a pastor's wife for 25 years, Beth Allison Barr has lived with assumptions about what she should do and who she should be. In Becoming the Pastor's Wife, Barr draws on that experience and her expertise as a historian to trace the history of the role of the pastor's wife, showing how it both helped and hurt women in conservative Protestant traditions. While they gained an important leadership role, it came at a deep cost: losing independent church leadership opportunities that existed throughout most of church history and strengthening a gender hierarchy that prioritized male careers.
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Clear title
- By kim case on 04-16-25
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My Dear Hemlock
- By: Tilly Dillehay
- Narrated by: Tilly Dillehay
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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We have no intention of explaining how this correspondence which we now offer to the public fell into our hands. Inside you will find letters exchanged between the diabolical Madame Hoaxrot and her junior devil Hemlock, who are scheming against a young woman’s relationship with her Creator. They plot to sabotage every feature of her life from sex to female friendship to empathy, motherhood, and aging.
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Phenomenal book! So insightful
- By Rachel on 04-09-25
By: Tilly Dillehay
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Breaking the Habit of Negative Thinking and Self-Talk
- By: Eckhart Tolle
- Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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"When the thinking mind never stops speaking," teaches Eckhart Tolle, "we can come to believe that this egoic self is who we are." But we are not our thoughts. And beneath them lies our true self: a vast consciousness reachable through simple awareness.
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Insightful, effective and practical - as always!
- By Being Presence Now on 02-22-22
By: Eckhart Tolle
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Consider the Lilies
- Finding Perfect Peace in the Character of God
- By: Jonny Ardavanis
- Narrated by: Jonny Ardavanis, David McCallion, Sinclair B. Ferguson
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Consider the Lilies is for those who long for liberation from their anxiety and fear--and desire to deeply know the God they are called and enabled to trust. If you are starved for hope and gasping for peace, consider the character of your heavenly Father, who welcomes all who are anxious, fearful, and melancholy to trust in Him.
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Powerful Truth
- By Anonymous User on 04-14-25
By: Jonny Ardavanis
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On Democracies and Death Cults
- Israel and the Future of Civilization
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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Douglas Murray, #1 international bestselling author and renowned cultural commentator, confronts arguably the most pressing question of our time: Why are Western supporters of Palestine unwittingly aligning with an evil empire? The campus left frames the violent hostilities as white colonialists committing genocide. Yet only a third of Israelis are Ashkenazi Jews of European ancestry. Murray argues that the conflict is not a simple tale of oppressor versus oppressed, but a clash between a thriving multi-racial democracy and a death cult bent on its destruction.
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Rivetting
- By Isaac H on 04-09-25
By: Douglas Murray
What listeners say about The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits
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- Mary J. Leblanc
- 04-09-25
Important Topic for Today!
The author is easy to understand, explains the concepts well, and backs up his claims with Scripture. I especially enjoyed his Screwtape parody in the Appendix! Very well done! Will definitely recommend to others. I also plan to purchase a hard copy of the book so I can really digest it.
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- me.too
- 04-12-25
So relevant for the church and society.
Loved everything except the idea of women as pastors. Agree wholeheartedly about feminism in general. Loved the references and quotes from C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton.
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- Dr.C
- 03-21-25
A Must Read
I enjoy the way that Joe takes the concepts of Friedman and distills them into digestable pieces. This has been a great book to hand out to those leaders who lack the discipline to read a long and in-depth analysis of empathy. It's well written, clear, and has no fat. If you're used to books like this being full of either redundancy or doublespeak this book will be quite refreshing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-22-25
Fantastic Clarity
Great clarity, definitions, and exposition by Pastor Rigney. An important note on something that has become an infectious undercurrent in modern society.
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- Daniel Kurtz
- 03-24-25
The most remarkable part of this book is its how obvious the idea is.
Rigney skillfully lays out the reality that we live in a world of sin and disordered passions or emotions. When we do not subjugate those passions and emotions to the truth, the result is sin. This is something that can easily be seen in passions such as anger and jealousy, but because of the cultural moment we end up having a blind spot to how empathy can do the same thing. Well worth the time of any Christian who wants to represent Christ and be better equipped to love one another as Christ commands.
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- timothy d sager
- 04-01-25
Clarity
Backed up by the Word of God… this book gives clarity to the virtue we have known as empathy. The world has taken this virtue and twisted into sin. Dive in deeper and understand what you just haven’t been able to put your finger on but you know it is amiss.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-11-25
Rigney’s Radical Rally to Rationality
Rigney calls the listener to exhibit godly compassion by being tethered to the truth of Gods word and rejecting secular means of interpreting the world around us. The culmination of 7 years worth of pastoral counseling through the woes of the woke world we live in, Rigney masterfully delineates between tethered sympathy and untethered empathy.
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- DHR
- 03-24-25
The applicability to today's issues is amazing
really enjoyed the book found it very helpful and insightful. I found it both applicable to my own life and insightful into many aspects of culture around me.
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- Matthew Dyment
- 04-02-25
What the world needs to realize
Joe does it again. With his sharp wit and use of dry humor and maybe a touch of sarcasm thrown in here and there…. Joe explains how people get gaslighted, baited and tricked i to conforming to sin. A must read for those with worldly friends trying to walk the narrow path. Well done!
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