The digital copies of this book are available for free at First Fruits website. place.asburyseminary.edu/firstfruits OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE TWENTY- EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION HELD IN THE 71st REGIMENT ARMORY AND MANY CHURCHES NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. JULY 6 - 11, 1921.

How did white evangelicals, a group that had once rallied national support for the federal minimum wage and progressive child labor laws, vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2016? In The End of Empathy, John W. Compton presents a nuanced portrait of the changing values of evangelical voters over the last century. To explain the rise of white Protestant social concern in the latter part of the nineteenth century and its sudden demise at the end of the twentieth, Compton argues that religious conviction, by itself, is rarely sufficient to motivate empathetic political behavior. When believers do act empathetically--championing reforms that transfer resources or political influence to less privileged groups within society, for example--it is typically because strong religious institutions have compelled them to do so.