Using Fathers to Close Prisons - Dr. Anthony Bradley - BreakPoint Podcast with John Stonestreet
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Anthony Bradley is mobilizing Fathers. His vision is to inspire dads to engage their children. He believes that in building strong fathering habits he can close prisons.
Bradley is the director of the Center for Human Flourishing at the Kings College. As a professor he mentors young men. He finds unique ways to use Twitter and other social media to inspire dads around the country to practice good fathering habits.
Bradley references the power of dad-play in the interview. He highlights what wrestling with a son does to their mental, emotional, spiritual, and social development.
John Stonestreet presses Bradley to identify the key benefits fathering has on society. Bradley calls dads to have friends. He references statistics along with real world stories to guide listeners to see the power of friendship inside the life of young and old men alike.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. I have been looking forward to this conversation for a while. |
| 0:08.2 | It's actually always a lot of fun. Whenever I get the very rare opportunity to have a conversation with Dr. Anthony Bradley, he's professor of religious studies, at the King's College. |
| 0:18.1 | Our paths have crossed throughout the years and various places at Acton |
| 0:21.9 | University, the Acton Institute and other places. Dr. Bradley not only is a professor at the |
| 0:28.3 | King's College, he is a favorite professor there. I've met tons of students that I have |
| 0:33.4 | once worked with that went on to study with Dr. Bradley and just have found it to be just a great experience. |
| 0:41.9 | And actually, I think some of the ways that he approaches being a professor is going to play into our conversation today on being a dad. |
| 0:50.9 | But more on that in just a second. |
| 0:52.5 | Also, a brand new position here, theologian and |
| 0:56.7 | Reson at Redeemer Presbyterian Church. That's exciting, first of all, to see the phrase theologian |
| 1:02.6 | in residence at a church, whenever that could happen. That is a good day. He's a research fellow at the |
| 1:09.2 | Acton Institute, director of the Center for the Study of Human Flourishing at the King's College. That's a research fellow at the Acton Institute, director of the Center for the |
| 1:11.4 | Study of Human Flourishing at the King's College. That's a heck of a resume. And what we're |
| 1:18.1 | going to talk about, though, has to do with fatherhood. I have been watching, I always say if |
| 1:24.7 | you're on Twitter, you can follow me at such and such at J.B. Stonstreet. |
| 1:28.2 | If you're not on Twitter, don't start. |
| 1:29.6 | It'll ruin your soul. |
| 1:31.1 | But there is a couple of folks that I follow on Twitter, Dr. Bradley's one of them. |
| 1:37.2 | And mainly over the last, I don't know, nine months, maybe I've just caught on for the last |
| 1:42.5 | nine months. |
| 1:43.0 | He has been tweeting and talking |
| 1:44.9 | and writing about fatherhood and especially fatherhood of boys and i have just been so fascinated by |
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