Anthony Bradley is a professor of religious studies and director of the Center for the Study of Human Flourishing at the King’s College in New York City. He gives us a personalist analysis of the criminal justice system (touching on everything from architecture to food) and the Black Lives Matter movement. We discuss the relationship between Afro-pessimism, hope, and Eastern Christianity, and how Black experience informs trinitarian theology. We also touch on the dangers of missional narcissism and the invention of whiteness. 

• Success and living a quiet life

• American eugenics movement

• The invention of whiteness

• Childhood trauma and educational outcomes

• Trauma-informed youth ministry

• Black experience and trinitarian theology

• Missional narcissism

• Exhaustion, tiredness, and race battle fatigue

• Personalism and the criminal justice system

• Restoration and rehumanizing

• Local compassion

• Christianity and Afro-pessimism

Links:
Black Lives Matter website
The Redneck Manifesto by Jim Goad
Hitler’s American Model by James Whitman
The Narcissism Epidemic by Jean Twenge
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates