# Anthony B. Bradley Anthony B. Bradley, PhD helps institutions reverse the boy-to-man collapse by fixing fatherhood and fraternity culture with data, theology, and field-tested programs and the pursuit of justice through personalism. Page: Feed: --- ## [Bringing The Fatherhood Effect To Your Church, School, Non-Profit](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/why-i-wrote-the-fatherhood-effect) _2026-08-18 · Anthony B. Bradley_ Grant support means I can bring The Fatherhood Effect to your church at essentially no cost ## [Weekly Top Five Articles: The Importance of Warmth, Structure, Belonging](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/weekly-top-five-articles-the-importance) _2026-08-14 · Anthony B. Bradley_ Consciousness, friendship, and faith all turn out to be received rather than achieved ## [Fathers and Sons 1: Why Your Son May Stop Talking to You](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/fathers-and-sons-1-why-your-son-may) _2026-08-13 · Anthony B. Bradley_ The hidden father-son dynamic that turns expressive boys into distant young men ## [What Sorority Rush and Male Influencer Culture Reveal About Young People Today](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/what-sorority-rush-and-male-influencer) _2026-08-11 · Anthony B. Bradley_ The Anxiety of Not Mattering ## [Weekly Top Five Articles: Forming The Inner Life](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/weekly-top-five-articles-forming) _2026-08-07 · Anthony B. Bradley_ Human flourishing depends on the formation of an interior life strong enough to resist self-protection, comparison, passivity, and calculation. ## [Fathers and Daughters 1: When a Father Is Present but His Daughter Still Feels Fatherless](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/fathers-and-daughters-1-when-a-father) _2026-08-06 · Anthony B. Bradley_ Why providing, attending activities, and living at home are not the same as giving a daughter your heart ## [Present Fathers, Fatherless Children](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/present-fathers-fatherless-children) _2026-08-04 · Anthony B. Bradley_ Introducing a new series on attachment, emotional absence, and what sons and daughters actually need from their fathers ## [Weekly Top Five Articles: Human Beings Are More Than Their Decisions](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/weekly-top-five-articles-human-beings) _2026-07-31 · Anthony B. Bradley_ This week’s Top Five articles provide over-arching theme: when formation loses its foundations in things that transcend individual preferences, people replace wisdom with technique, character with image, and transcendence with self-invention. ## [When the Great Commission Replaced the Christian Family](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/when-the-great-commission-replaced) _2026-07-30 · Anthony B. Bradley_ From the Bradley slave plantation to generations of Christian faith—and the Reformed doctrine that explains it ## [Your Son Is Not the Problem. His Youth Group Might Be.](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/your-son-is-not-the-problem-his-youth) _2026-07-28 · Anthony B. Bradley_ Why fathers should stop forcing teenage boys into ministries that infantilize them and start forming their sons themselves [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208769835.mp3) ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wkmyOeJSSalm) _2026-07-28 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [The Words Every Man Is Waiting to Hear](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/the-words-every-man-is-waiting-to) _2026-07-23 · Anthony B. Bradley_ Why 'I'm Proud of You' Is a Man's Love Language ## [My Last Name Was Almost Gully](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/my-last-name-was-almost-gully) _2026-07-21 · Anthony B. Bradley_ My family name came from a slave transaction. This weekend, we gathered a few miles from where it happened. ## [Weekly Top Five Articles: Formation Cannot Be Optimized](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/weekly-top-five-articles-formation) _2026-07-17 · Anthony B. Bradley_ Five articles on formation, constraint, and what holds a life together ## [I Haven't Slept Well In 17 Years](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/i-havent-slept-well-in-17-years) _2026-07-16 · Anthony B. Bradley_ The research on sleep deprivation and middle-aged men is devastating. My story proves it. ## [12 Reasons Your Wife Needs Her Mother More Than You Need That Promotion](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/12-reasons-your-wife-needs-her-mother) _2026-07-14 · Anthony B. Bradley_ What social science and Judeo-Christian traditions agree on about grandmothers, proximity, and the family asset most husbands overlook ## [Weekly Top Five Articles: Commitment Is the New Counterculture](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/weekly-top-five-articles-commitment) _2026-07-10 · Anthony B. Bradley_ What surrealists, sociologists, and young lovers accidentally agree on ## [The Three Frustrations Young Christian Men Are Afraid to Say Out Loud](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/the-three-frustrations-young-christian) _2026-07-09 · Anthony B. Bradley_ What ambitious Christian men are saying when pastors or parents are not in the room ## [My Response to Lecrae's John Piper Video and Why 5-Point Calvinism Normally Fails at Christian Social Thought](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/my-response-to-lecraes-john-piper) _2026-07-07 · Anthony B. Bradley_ This is a slight departure from my normal posts. ## [Weekly Top Five: A Teenager Stayed Behind After My Talk](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/weekly-top-five-a-teenager-stayed) _2026-07-03 · Anthony B. Bradley_ Five ideas shaping how we think about the mind, history, family, fertility, and adolescent suffering followed by a private story that showed me why fatherhood work can have an immediate impact. ## [The Last Institution That Expects Men to Grow Up](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/the-last-institution-that-expects) _2026-06-30 · Anthony B. Bradley_ The peer-reviewed case for how the military builds leaders, citizens, and adults ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZcLatCietpMa) _2026-06-30 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [Weekly Top Five Articles: The Thinning of the Human Person](https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/weekly-top-five-articles-the-thinning) _2026-06-26 · Anthony B. Bradley_ Five new studies on attention, self-control, trauma, AI, and the slow erosion of formation