The Anthony Bradley Show

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.