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Here's my 2-part plan to heal America's race/policing injustices based on human dignity while upholding the rule of law & the US Constitution. #TransitionalJustice tackles issues of police reform, truth commissions, #reparations, etc. (1) Reform Policing: blog.acton.org/archives/11655…
Part 2: Racial justice, racial healing, & racial solidarity that involves the whole community: government, faith-based organizations, schools, etc. We cannot properly talk about #reparations or racial reconciliation outside of #TransitionalJustice. fathommag.com/stories/finall…
Email, text, and RT these articles to your mayors, governors, state legislators, city council members, religious leaders, teachers, activists, non-profit leaders, business leaders, judges, law enforcement officials and begin the healing process one city at a time.
Click the link on the "Chicago Principles" in the articles and read @drcolleenmurphy's book to learn what transitional justice is. Prof Murphy helps explain why transitional justice works when other justice approaches (restorative, etc.) miss the mark: amazon.com/Conceptual-Fou…
Has transitional justice been tried anywhere? Yes! Since WWII in Germany, South Africa, Rwanda, etc. but only one US City: Greensboro, NC. America is so far behind and it's time to *finally* more forward. Your city could be next! amazon.com/Learning-Green…
I know a group of experts who work on transitional justice issues so if you'd like to have any of them meet with your local/state political, religious leaders, etc. to discuss making transitional justice happen near your contact me abradley at tkc.edu. #LetsGo
New York City has already initiated truth commissions to address racism but this is but one aspect of a broad, holistic social and community transformation advanced by a robust transitional justice approach. nytimes.com/aponline/2020/…

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Mar 14
Therapist Jim Brillon on “Mother and Son Enmeshment.” You’ll never hear a church leader discuss this. We talk too much about “father wounds” but lots of young men fail to launch because of their mothers. This is a huge trend in the South. “If mama ain’t happy, no one is…”
I’ve had male college students over the years who had moms that required their sons to talk them every night. True story. These were Christian moms from conservative churches. Many moms look to their sons to get the emotional support they need & don’t have from their husbands.
Enmeshed moms make their sons their surrogate emotional boyfriends. The overbearing, emotionally enmeshed mother can produce sons who are extremely misogynistic or red-pillish because the boys make a silent vow to never be emotionally controlled by a woman ever again.
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Jan 10
Thoughts? Can we stop whining about young Christian guys following Peterson, Rogan, Tate, etc. These men aren’t a problem. Neither is YouTube. The problem is that the other men in the lives of teens aren’t compelling. Youth group/Christian schools infantilize boys with moralism.
Also, the problem is that many of their own fathers aren’t speaking greatness into the core issues in their son’s lives. Fathers aren’t empowered or encouraged because, for some silly reason, we think teens need to listen to a 24-year-old who is “cool” and “fun.”🤦🏽‍♂️
Peterson, Rogan, Tate, etc. say hard things and they don’t coddle lads. They’ve all tapped into the fact the boys want significance, ambition, & achievement. All good things! Sadly, many Christian lads are told that greatness is missions & church work. “Make your life count!”
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Jan 1
I *almost* approached a dad in a restaurant yesterday to ask him for an interview about being a dad. The way he was interacting with his three sons, esp. his teen son, was really beautiful. I actually choked up. I debated approaching but I didn’t want to interrupt what I saw.😂🤷🏾‍♂️
The reason I choked up is that his teenage son is probably clueless about how rare it is for a dad to be *that* engaged (eye-contact), affectionate, & joyful with sons in public. Read the data! When they got up to leave, the teen was beaming with self-confidence!!
The way the middle son kept walking over to drape himself over his dad’s shoulder was really special. I was like “wow.” These kids really love this man and they all felt fully comfortable with public closeness. They whole family was actually sitting really close to each other.
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Dec 30, 2023
If church men are policing women about being “immodest,” women should started telling guys to stop looking like slobs. I recently had to tell a young guy to stop wearing hoodies & jeans everywhere. I pointed him in the direction below and 3 things happened: 1) ⬆️self-confidence
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2) girls started saying “yes” when he asked them out. 3) He walked into a job interview and nailed it. He noticed that people automatically treated him differently with greater respect when his shirt was tucked in and he looked like a professional.
A few weeks ago, I walked passed a nice restaurant and looked in and saw a bunch of young couples where the women were super dressed up and all the guys where wearing jeans, hoodies, sneakers. Guys didn’t even bother matching her energy. It seemed so dishonoring to these ladies.
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Dec 15, 2023
I've changed my mind, I used to think that conservative evangelicals valued the role of fathers. I no longer believe that. A 30-year study shows that the most important determinant of faith persistence in kids is the *relational* warmth of fathers, then grandfathers.
I cannot name a single pastor or church in America, that structures children & youth programming around this fact. Conservative churches wrongly focus on fathers as "spiritual heads" when fathers as relational & affection heads matters 100x more than leading a family devotion.
The data is clear that the father's role trumps the mothers. So, we have all of this data about the role of fathers so what is it about pastors and church leaders that prevents them from acting on what the data says? anabaptistworld.org/family-warmth-…
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Dec 3, 2023
My advice to churches searching for their next pastor: hire the guy who is a no-name, has no social media presence, whose sermons are faithful to the Text but doesn't "wow," is faithful to the Lord, his wife, his kids, and loves all of those people *more* than the church.
You want someone who will not "put your church on the map" because he's too busy doing home visits and sending elders into hospitals. You want the guy who does not speak at conferences and does not write articles & blog on ministry websites.
If he's written no books, that's great! If he doesn't want a DMin degree just to be called "Dr"; or if he has one he doesn't go by "Dr," hire *that* dude immediately. You want the guy that no one's heard of. When they Google him, nothing comes up. Yeah, him! And, pay him well.
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