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The Empathy List #166: Christian Celebrity Betrayals
How do we respond when Christian celebrities (like Dr. James Dobson and Elisabeth Elliot) fail us?
Feb 10
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Liz Charlotte Grant
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Curious Reads: Why is Dr. Dobson in the Epstein Files? (TW)
One of American Evangelicalism's favorite parenting experts appears in the infamous data DOJ drop. What do we make of it? (TRIGGER WARNING)
Feb 3
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Liz Charlotte Grant
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the Empathy List #165: What's really happening in frozen Minnesota? 🧊
I asked my mom friends in MN to jump on a call so you can hear what it's like in their communities RIGHT NOW, IRL.
Jan 27
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Liz Charlotte Grant
and
Laura Kelly Fanucci
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the Empathy List #164: A Very Bad Week
Losing a Good Woman to State-Sponsored Violence and How to Be An Activist Anyway
Jan 13
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Liz Charlotte Grant
10
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1
the Empathy List #163: A Debut Author's Publishing Story, Part 6
A Debut Author's Publishing Story, Part 6: One year after my book's release, what does publishing mean to me now?
Jan 7
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Liz Charlotte Grant
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the Empathy List #162: The Cruelty is the Point
A Visit to Aurora, Colorado's Detention Center Reminded Me (Yet Again!) that Our Immigration Policy is Less About Laws, and More about Dehumanization.
Dec 16, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
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the Empathy List #161: The American Evangelical Church Has a "Woman Problem"
As in, we're heading for the exits.
Dec 9, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
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Anna Rollins
22
8
3
the Empathy List #160: What good does protest do?
Historians would like a word.
Nov 18, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
12
1
the Empathy List #159: On Energy Vampires and the Gift of a Diverse Community
Sara Billups' weighs in on what it takes to build IRL community (hint: it will cost you MORE than just your energy reserves).
Nov 11, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
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Sara Billups
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The Empathy List #166: Christian Celebrity Betrayals
How do we respond when Christian celebrities (like Dr. James Dobson and Elisabeth Elliot) fail us?
Feb 10
•
Liz Charlotte Grant
8
3
Curious Reads: Why is Dr. Dobson in the Epstein Files? (TW)
One of American Evangelicalism's favorite parenting experts appears in the infamous data DOJ drop. What do we make of it? (TRIGGER WARNING)
Feb 3
•
Liz Charlotte Grant
61
23
4
the Empathy List #165: What's really happening in frozen Minnesota? 🧊
I asked my mom friends in MN to jump on a call so you can hear what it's like in their communities RIGHT NOW, IRL.
Jan 27
•
Liz Charlotte Grant
and
Laura Kelly Fanucci
17
5
5
the Empathy List #164: A Very Bad Week
Losing a Good Woman to State-Sponsored Violence and How to Be An Activist Anyway
Jan 13
•
Liz Charlotte Grant
10
2
1
the Empathy List #160: What good does protest do?
Historians would like a word.
Nov 18, 2025
•
Liz Charlotte Grant
12
1
the Empathy List #158: "Jesus is Being Teargassed at Broadview"
Clergy protest at Broadview Detention Center in Chicagoland gives me hope.
Oct 29, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
4
the Empathy List #156: The Resistance is Here
A roundup of grassroots American protest against Trump and the GOP that gives me hope.
Oct 14, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
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7
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Curious Reads: Who is Using Whom?
Worship at Charlie Kirk's Memorial was just One More Capitulation of the Evangelical Church to the GOP
Oct 7, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
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Kelsey Kramer McGinnis
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book recommendations
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the Empathy List #161: The American Evangelical Church Has a "Woman Problem"
As in, we're heading for the exits.
Dec 9, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
and
Anna Rollins
22
8
3
the Empathy List #159: On Energy Vampires and the Gift of a Diverse Community
Sara Billups' weighs in on what it takes to build IRL community (hint: it will cost you MORE than just your energy reserves).
Nov 11, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
and
Sara Billups
8
1
the Empathy List #150: I Miss Church Camp
...but not the exclusive theology that I learned there. (Plus Cara Meredith's book, Church Camp.)
Apr 29, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
and
Cara Meredith
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the Empathy List #148: Male theology nerd: do we HAVE to debate women's roles at the church picnic?
If so, then choose to listen more than you talk.
Apr 15, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
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Liz Cooledge Jenkins
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interviews
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the Empathy List #157: Zach Lambert was kicked out of youth group.
A conversation between two leftie Christians about the reading the Bible for liberation, not authoritarianism.
Oct 21, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
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Zach W. Lambert
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the Empathy List #122: For Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Repentance Looks Like Changing Your Mind
Lore Ferguson Wilbert on Ecology, What the American Church Gets Wrong, and Generous Disagreement
May 17, 2024
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Liz Charlotte Grant
10
6
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the Empathy List #117: Church is hard for Marcie Alvis Walker, too.
A conversation with Marcie Alvis Walker of @BlackCoffeewithWhiteFriends about family dysfunction, white supremacy at church, and learning to parent the…
Feb 2, 2024
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Liz Charlotte Grant
3
1
the Empathy List #109: Trey Ferguson Can't Reconvert Anybody
Pastor Trey Ferguson on how to stay humble on Twitter, loving your deconverted friends, and the "outsider" theologians you must read.
Sep 20, 2023
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Liz Charlotte Grant
12
8
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a debut author's publishing story
the Empathy List #163: A Debut Author's Publishing Story, Part 6
A Debut Author's Publishing Story, Part 6: One year after my book's release, what does publishing mean to me now?
Jan 7
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Liz Charlotte Grant
20
22
3
the Empathy List #137: A Debut Author's Publishing Story, Part 5
What does it feel like to be a brand new baby book author?
Jan 14, 2025
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Liz Charlotte Grant
17
5
2
the Empathy List #136: A Debut Author's Publishing Story, Part 4
The Manuscript that Lived, AKA my first published book releases TODAY!
Jan 8, 2025
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the Empathy List #135: A Debut Author's Publishing Story, Part 3
Another Day, Another Manuscript Dead-On-Arrival
Dec 31, 2024
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the Empathy List #134: A Debut Writer's Publishing Story, Part 2
Killing The Myth of "Getting Discovered" (Plus an aside about artistic delusion)
Dec 24, 2024
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Liz Charlotte Grant
23
10
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the Empathy List #133: A Debut Author's Publishing Story, Part 1
Because every author began as a starving artist.
Dec 17, 2024
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Liz Charlotte Grant
25
22
2
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