Far too often, it is easy to claim that if a specific issue doesn’t affect me, then I needn’t worry myself about it. Compassion has fallen by the wayside in the foregone conclusion that the self is supreme. The phrase “crisis of compassion” has been floated several times to describe the phenomenon of how our empathy for one another is breaking down. We are at a point in the history of our globe where we have never been as intertwined as before. From a Christian perspective, Jesus certainly calls us to reach out to those who are most vulnerable in our community.