Peter Capretto is Associate Professor of Psychology, Culture, and Religion at Phillips Theological Seminary. A philosopher of religion and pastoral theologian, Peter’s research explores how social experiences such as empathy shape the ethics and politics of care—specifically around trauma, disability, and race. His writings on the philosophy and psychology of religion have appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Los Angeles Review of Books, Political Theology, The Heythrop Journal, the Journal of Religion and Health, and various scholarly anthologies. He is co-editor of Trauma and Transcendence: Suffering and the Limits of Theory from Fordham University Press, and his first monograph Beyond the Empathy Trap is scheduled for release in 2026, also with Fordham University Press.