Race and American Christianity with Anthony Bradley

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 talk about 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