How to Disagree Without Losing Your Mind (on the That’ll Preach Podcast)

I was recently invited onto the That’ll Preach Podcast to discuss ways to reform our discourse. Take a listen!

Resisting Therapy Culture — with Matthew Loftus That’ll Preach

Therapeutic language now shapes how we see almost everything — including the church. Increasingly, congregations and their leaders are judged by standards of psychological wellness rather than biblical faithfulness. In this episode, Matthew Loftus joins us to talk about his book Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond. He argues that therapy and church do good but different work, and that confusing the two shortchanges both — churches should be places of healing and love, but their calling is to gather people to worship God, not to replace clinical care. We talk about what a healthy church/therapy relationship looks like, why the roles shouldn't blur, and what it means for leaders to refocus on their actual mission. Show Notes Pre-order Resisting Therapy Culture: hhttps://a.co/d/06bcpwMi Learn more about Matthew Loftus: https://matthewandmaggie.org/ Support us on Patreon Website: thatllpreach.io IG: thatllpreachpodcast YouTube Channel
  1. Resisting Therapy Culture — with Matthew Loftus
  2. Weird Theology | Augustine and Aquinas on Virginity
  3. Read the Bible Like Music — with Alastair Roberts
  4. Replay: Cultivating a Sound Mind in Anxious Times with Rev. Ben Miller
  5. Weird Theology | Do Demons Hear Your Thoughts? Rethinking Spiritual Warfare

The ‘Sin’ of Empathy? (with Hannah Anderson and Joe Rigney)

The moral character of empathy has recently been a subject of contentious online debate among Christians. Joe Rigney and Hannah Anderson, who have both engaged in these disputes with their different concerns, join me for an extended discussion of the question, hoping to clear up some misunderstandings on both sides, and to break some differences down to size.

Within the conversation we mention various articles and other material.

Joe Rigney
The Enticing Sin of Empathy
Dangerous Compassion
Do You Feel My Pain?
Man Rampant Interview

Abigail Dodds
The Beauty and Abuse of Empathy

Paul Bloom
The Case Against Empathy
Against Empathy

Edwin Friedman
A Failure of Nerve
My summary of A Failure of Nerve

Brené Brown
On Empathy
Daring Greatly
Shame and Empathy