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