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 a personalist analysis of the criminal justice system (touching on everything from architecture to food) and the Black Lives Matter movement. In this rerun episode, Anthony and Ryan discuss the relationship between Afro-pessimism, hope, and Eastern Christianity, and how Black experience informs trinitarian theology. They 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