{"id":38802,"date":"2025-07-23T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=38802"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:07:45","slug":"allie-beth-stuckey-14-appears-on-nyt-podcast-interesting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/allie-beth-stuckey-14-appears-on-nyt-podcast-interesting-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Allie Beth Stuckey &#8217;14 appears on NYT podcast &#8216;Interesting Times&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Podcaster, speaker, author and Christian conservative Allie Beth Stuckey joined Ross Douthat on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/is-toxic-empathy-pulling-christians-to-the-left\/id1438024613?i=1000717650733\">Interesting Times,<\/a>&#8221; a podcast of The New York Times. Stuckey, a 2014 Furman University alumna, spoke about her background, her role as an influencer in the podcast space, and how empathy can become toxic &#8211; the subject of her latest book, &#8220;Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.&#8221; Among other topics in the hourlong program, Stuckey weighed in on culture war issues such as abortion, gender, sexuality and immigration from a biblical worldview.<\/p>\n<p>A communications studies graduate, Stuckey is host of the podcast &#8220;Relatable&#8221; and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/youre-not-enough-and-thats-okay\/\">You&#8217;re Not Enough (And That&#8217;s Okay)<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alumna Allie Beth Stuckey &#8217;14 is a guest on The New York Times podcast &#8220;Interesting Times&#8221; with host Ross Douthat. The communications studies alumna talks about her background, culture war issues and her new book, &#8220;Toxic Empathy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":38808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,6,3473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news","category-interesting-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38811,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38802\/revisions\/38811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}