empathy
New book links the decline of religious authority to the end of empathy
By Yonat Shimron — October 6, 2020
(RNS) — John Compton’s ‘The End of Empathy’ shows how the collapse of religious authority in the 1960s led Christians to evangelical megachurches that resist any efforts at social reform.
Can empathy be learned? Science offers some clues
By Rosalie Chan — October 24, 2017
(RNS) — Researchers say empathy is not only a biological instinct, but also a skill human beings can learn and improve upon.
What is wrong with white Christians?
By John Gehring — August 10, 2017
(RNS) — Too many white Christians sacrifice the gospel’s radical solidarity with the poor and oppressed with comfortable, self-serving ideologies, writes John Gehring.
Watch this stunning illustration of religious peacemaking from Tribeca Film Festival
By Jonathan Merritt — April 25, 2017
New Yorkers wear mirrored boxes on their heads in his impressive video short from Tribeca Film Festival.
Frans de Waal on Ken Ham, Richard Dawkins, and morality without religion
By Chris Stedman — February 28, 2014
Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal speaks with RNS about the Bill Nye and Ken Ham creationism debate, "selfish genes," and what humanists can learn from religion.
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