The Rev. John Arthur Nunes, Ph.D., is a Lutheran pastor and a senior fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy joins Anthony Bradley to discuss the Supreme Court ruling prohibiting affirmative action in college admissions on the basis of race.  Dr. Nunes has served as the president of Concordia College New York, as the president and CEO of Lutheran World Relief, and as a professor at Valparaiso University. Recent books John has written include (with Alberto Garcia) Reimagining the Reformation from the Edges (2017) and Meant for More: In, With, and Under the Ordinary (2020).

On Ending Affirmative Action

Should Christian parents let their sons join college fraternities? Josh Beyer, a junior and a devout Christian at the University of Arkansas answers that question and tells his own story of what it's been like to navigate Greek like as a committed Christian. Josh has not only been a faithful member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity but as a Phi Delt, Josh has also served in leadership on the Interfraternity Council at the University of Arkansas.

On Being A Christian In A State School Fraternity Featuring Josh Beyer

Tragedy struck the campus of GVSU on Thursday, December 9, 2021 when Quinn Campbell took his own life it changed his fraternity forever. On this episode, I'm joined by James Mazure and Lucas Glentzer to discuss their fraternity experience in light of Quinn's story.

Alpha Tau Omega at GVSU On Brotherhood, Suicide, and Mental Health

Jared Oliphint

Dr. Jared Oliphint is a 2022 PhD graduate in philosophy at Texas A&amp;M University and, like the majority of PhD graduates in the humanities, was completely unable to land a teaching. In an academic world, defined by pledging allegiance to diversity, equity, and inclusion, a humanities teaching career is not likely going to happen. You should discourage your friends and loved one from pursuing a humanities PhD because the stress and trauma of their likely and eventual unemployment may not be worth it.

When Your Humanities PhD Leads To Unemployment With Dr. Jared Oliphint

Men and boys are lost! In the episode, I provide this history, the data, and practical things that churches can do to end the Boy Crisis. Two books are critical here: (1) The Boy Crisis by Warren Farrell and John Gray, and (2) Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves. Boys don’t know why the country needs them. They don’t know why they are here. The male problem today is a crisis of hopelessness. They lack a sense of purpose. There is no clear path for young men to know what they are needed for exactly! Young men sitting home and watching video games is not laziness. Its resignation. It’s not intentional irresponsibility, but an expression of active hopelessness. The slides that accompany this presentation are on my Patreon account.

How Churches Should Respond To The Boy Crisis

Michael Jones

Dr. Michael Jones, an obesity medicine physician in Virginia, spoke to me about obesity and the Christian life. This is one topic you will not hear pastors or Christian leaders raise. For example, Crossway has no books on obesity but the publishers does have books on all types of other addictions &amp; diseases. Being overweight should not be reduced to gluttony, although it is pretty sad to see churches boasting about their gluttonous community events (lots of men's events do this). Being overweight can range from poorly managing discomfort, stress, anxiety, etc. to lacking education about what to eat or not eat. Christian bear witness to the truth of Christianity by how we talk care of our bodies and this discussion is long overdue.

Dr. Michael Jones On Obesity And The Christian Life

Ryan Primer, 28, who attended Christian schools in entire life talks about his struggles with alcohol addiction and surviving sobriety and how he uses Instagram to offer people help and hope.

Ryan Primer On Addiction And Sobriety

The Rev. Dr. Robert Fossett, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Greenville, AL, joins me to talk about his own journey with being overweight, addiction, and the massive obesity problem in evangelical churches, the PCA, SBC, etc. in the most conservative parts of the country. We cover how both obese pastors and obese congregations could undermine the gospel and also put their own children at risk for chronic health problems.

Fat Pastors Preaching To Obese Congregations

LEAD

Jamison Taylor was the 2021 president of Alpha Phi Alpha at Clemson University. In this episode, Jamison explains why it is that Alpha Phi Alpha produces some of the most influential leaders across the campus of Clemson University.

Clemson Alpha Phi Alpha: Men Who Lead Across The Campus

David Daniels

The story of African American Christianity begins in black African Europe, not in America. Dr. David Daniels, professor of church history at McCormick Theology Seminary, tells the story of how African American Christianity emerged out of a context of African Christians engaged, leading Europeans Luther and others.In this episode, Dr. Daniels answers this key question: Did Africans from West Africa need slavery to be introduced to Christianity? The answer is "no." According to what Dr. Daniels said on a recent lecture at The King's College, "They could have learned from Cape Verde. They could have learned from Kathu. They could have learned if they traded at all with anybody from Warri, Benin, or Alada, which is part of Nigeria.”

The story of African American Christianity begins in black African Europe, not in America. Dr. David Daniels, professor of church history at McCormick Theology Seminary, tells the story of how African American Christianity emerged out of a context of African Christians engaged, leading Europeans Luther and others.<br><br>In this episode, Dr. Daniels answers this key question: Did Africans from West Africa need slavery to be introduced to Christianity? The answer is "no." According to what Dr. Daniels said on a recent lecture at The King's College, "They could have learned from Cape Verde. They could have learned from Kathu. They could have learned if they traded at all with anybody from Warri, Benin, or Alada, which is part of Nigeria.”

Dr. David Daniels On 16th & 17th Century African & Black American Christianity

The Anthony Bradley Show podcast is a conversation with key figures hosted by Anthony B. Bradley, PhD. Professor Bradley teaches at the King's College in New York City and is the director of the Center for the Study of Human Flourishing. The show brings guests in psychology, religious studies, theology, law, sociology, biology, chemistry, physics, economics, political philosophy, business, sports, and more.

Mr. Nick Fischer is the 2021-2022 president of the Sigma Phi fraternity at the University of Virginia. This chapter, through its traditions and rituals, builds enduring friendships for guys at UVA that changes lives and enters men into a brotherhood with unbreakable bonds.

Sigma Phi at UVA: Building A Lifelong Brotherhood And Men Of Excellence

Joseph Huett, the 2021-2022 president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity at the University of Arkansas. With exceptional humility and transparency, Mr. Huett describes a culture at Phi Delt characterized by close friendships, intelligence, proper self-confidence and the virtue of intentional kindness and how they worked at driving their brotherhood toward greatness. Currently on a suspension, this is group of men who are wiling to learn from their mistakes and grow from it. Honest men, seeking to be better men, is what America needs. Under Joe Huett's influence, Phi Delt is committed to providing them.

Arkansas Phi Delt Fraternity: Building Great Friendships and Confident Men

Steve Egnaczyk is the 2022 president of the Triangle Fraternity at Ohio State University. Triangle fraternity provides STEM and science majors with the best of both worlds: a fraternity that provides a dynamic social life while also providing resources and opportunities for professional development.

Ohio State Triangle Fraternity: The Best of Both Worlds

Keri Leigh Merritt

Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton and thus, slaves in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor whites could not compete for jobs or living wages with profitable slave labor. Though impoverished whites were never subjected to the daily violence and degrading humiliations of racial slavery, they did suffer tangible socio economic consequences as a result of living in a slave society. Merritt examines how these 'masterless' men and women threatened the existing Southern hierarchy and ultimately helped push Southern slaveholders toward secession and civil war.***Winner of the 2018 Bennett H. Wall Award, from the Southern Historical Association, for the best book published in the previous two years on southern business or economic history. ***Winner of the 2018 President's Book Award, from the Social Science History Association, awarded annually to a first work by an early career scholar.

Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton and thus, slaves in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor whites could not compete for jobs or living wages with profitable slave labor. Though impoverished whites were never subjected to the daily violence and degrading humiliations of racial slavery, they did suffer tangible socio economic consequences as a result of living in a slave society. Merritt examines how these 'masterless' men and women threatened the existing Southern hierarchy and ultimately helped push Southern slaveholders toward secession and civil war.***Winner of the 2018 Bennett H. Wall Award, from the Southern Historical Association, for the best book published in the previous two years on southern business or economic history. <br>***Winner of the 2018 President's Book Award, from the Social Science History Association, awarded annually to a first work by an early career scholar.

Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt On Poor White Men In the Antebellum South

Connor Kilgore is the 2022 president of the Kappa Alpha fraternity at the University of Arkansas. Connor is leading his fraternity in the effort to dispel the bad stereotypes of college fraternities by creating a culture of respect. On this episode Connor explains how they turn good men into great men.

Arkansas Kappa Alpha: A Brotherhood Defined By Respect

Paul Maxwell

On April 9th, 2021 the Christian Post announced that Paul Maxwell, a former writer at The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and the author of The Trauma of Doctrine, was no longer a Christian. In this "Rogan Style" episode, you'll hear the good, bad, and ugly of his journey from abusive parents to neglectful seminary professors and what contributed to the deconstruction of his faith. Dr. Maxwell transitioned from being a defender of Reformed theology to embracing identifying himself as an atheist. John Piper, Matt Chandler, Kevin VanHoozer, Moody, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity school, all play key roles in his journey to walking away from Reformed evangelicalism.

Dr. Paul Maxwell's Journey From Calvinism to Atheism

Chad Frick, the 2021 president of the Alpha Sig fraternity explains why he joined a fraternity and become president as someone who does not drink alcohol, why geographic diversity is so vital for their friendships, and the ways that they keep each other accountable to be better men.

Clemson Alpha Sigs: Men of Character Who Better The World

Chi Psi

Up to 44% of college students reported having symptoms of depression and anxiety. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for college students. For men on college campuses fraternities have emerged as a refuge for students to have a safe space to process their emotions. Kent Carroll, president of the Chi Psi fraternity at Clemson University joined me for a brief chat about what they're doing to help men in their fraternity with their mental health and why. Clemson Chi Psi is one of the best examples of how good Greek life can be for college men.

Chi Psi at Clemson, Mental Wellness, And Making Better Men

Steve Christoforou

Steve Christoforou of the Greek Orthodox Church of America joins Anthony Bradley to discuss the distinctives of Eastern Orthodoxy on issues like the understandings of the authority of Scripture, the gospel, original sin, salvation, the sacraments, and more.

Orthodoxy vs. Evangelical Protestantism with Steve Christoforou

Dissatisfied with a Victorian culture focused on domesticity and threatened by physical decline in sedentary office jobs, American men in the late nineteenth century sought masculine company in fraternal lodges and engaged in exercise to invigorate their bodies. One form of this new manly culture, developed out of the Protestant churches, was known as muscular Christianity. In this fascinating study, Clifford Putney discusses how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness.

Muscular Christianity with Dr. Clifford Putney

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