christianity and politics

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

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

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

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

the Empathy List #160: What good does protest do?

Historians would like a word.

Nov 18, 2025 • Liz Charlotte Grant

the Empathy List #158: "Jesus is Being Teargassed at Broadview"

Clergy protest at Broadview Detention Center in Chicagoland gives me hope.

Oct 29, 2025 • Liz Charlotte Grant

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 • Liz Charlotte Grant

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 • Liz Charlotte Grant and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

the Empathy List #155: Empathy for him, too?

Reckoning with gun violence and the horrible symmetry of Charlie Kirk's advocacy and death.

Sep 16, 2025 • Liz Charlotte Grant

the Empathy List #154: Donald Trump at the Pearly Gates?

And what does DT's version of heaven look like, anyway?

Sep 9, 2025 • Liz Charlotte Grant

Curious Reads: After a school shooting

...whose stories should we tell? And how should we tell them?

Sep 3, 2025 • Liz Charlotte Grant

the Empathy List #152: Are We in Political Hell?

Reimagining the theology of heaven (and hell) helps.

Aug 19, 2025 • Liz Charlotte Grant

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