Episode 14: Prof Anthony Reddie - Preaching with fire, tenderness, resistance, and grace

What happens when preaching refuses to soothe and instead dares to tell the truth?In this episode of Preaching Well, Professor Anthony Reddie — theologian, storyteller, disruptor, and one of the UK’s leading voices in Black liberation theology — takes us into the pulpit as a place of protest, imagination, memory, and mercy.Anthony speaks of Windrush beginnings, Bradford classrooms, family storytellers, and the church’s long entanglement with power.He names the courage it takes to preach against empire inside institutions shaped by empire.He shows how humour undoes defences, how stories open doors, and how the gospel sides — stubbornly — with those crushed at the margins.This is preaching with fire, tenderness, resistance, and grace.Not comfort. Not neutrality. A summons to truth.