Radical Empathy

I love Jonathan Haidt’s TED talk because it allowed me to feel something in a fresh way that I had previously understood intellectually. There are reasons—good reasons—why people hold beliefs that are dramatically different from my own.

It’s easy to think: “If she had lived my life, she would share my views.” But what if that is actually the truth? She is living your life. She is sharing your views. What if you are another me. And I am another you.

“We are many parts, we are all one body,” we sing, week after week, in church. But what if it’s actually true?

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