How Did This Conservative Commentator Get Into Podcasting?
By Movieguide® Contributor
How did Allie Beth Stuckey get started in podcasting? The answer might surprise you.
“I’ve always liked to talk, and I’ve always liked to write,” Stuckey said while appearing on “The Jinger & Jeremy Podcast.” “I’ve always liked to communicate. I’ve always liked to try to persuade.”
She admired Megyn Kelly’s work and even considered law school but ultimately decided against it. However, after giving her commencement address, Stuckey realized she had an interest in public speaking.
“I remember thinking…‘Wow, I want to do this! I want to do this more,’” she recalled.
She ended up taking a job in PR but still felt like there was something more she wanted to be doing with her career.
“It was 2015, so the presidential primary was starting,” Stuckey explained. “I thought, ‘You know, I’m in this college town, right next to sorority row. What if I go to these sorority houses and I give a presentation about why they should vote, why they should care about politics?’”
She began giving “nonpartisan” presentations to college students, speaking about the importance of voting and taking an interest in politics.
“[I remember thinking] ‘I love this, I love these conversations, I love talking to these college students,’ and so that’s really how it started,” Stuckey concluded. “God providentially just worked it all together…God has just navigated it since then.”
Stuckey also gave a shout out to her husband, saying, “I certainly wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing without Timothy…he believed me and believed in me…I would not do this without the confidence he gives me.”
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Stuckey recently released her second book, Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.
“Toxic empathy is the use of empathy as a kind of a mallet of manipulation,” she said in an interview with WORLD. “So, a tool by which those in power in media exploit and extort people into taking on a particular position by saying, in order to be a good person, in order to be a compassionate and kind person, this is the stance that you must take. And they do that not through good faith persuasion — because that’s one thing — but through what I would say is emotional manipulation, or telling only one side of the story, or completely misrepresenting an issue to make you believe that the only righteous position is their position.”
Stuckey continued, “Empathy and love are different things. You can feel how someone else feels, but love is inextricable with the truth, because love never rejoices in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth, as 1 Corinthians 13:6 tells us. And the God who is love 1 John 4:8 gets to define that for us. And so we as Christians are obligated not just to feel how someone else feels, but to actually look at the policies and the so-called culture war from the perspective of what is actually true.”
A synopsis of the book elaborates on that idea, reading, “This book isn’t about killing empathy; it’s about submitting our empathy to God’s definitions of love, goodness, and justice. Stuckey exposes the logical pitfalls and moral consequences of toxic empathy, equipping Christians with research-backed, Biblical truths to dismantle the progressive lies that have permeated our culture — and our church.”
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