I’ll answer the lurker’s question: NO.

The author’s claim is that we should “embrace” this violent subculture. What does that mean? Affirm? Lovingly caress? What? I have zero patience for the patronizing false humility of anti-pharisee crusaders. I have zero patience for berating people into proving their christian manhood and the patriarchal misanthropy clothed in the supposed “love of Jesus.” The ways of rage and violence and those who work them stand under the eternal rebuke of Jesus’ teaching and the Cross. Embrace? Let’s start with the victims of violence.

By Mr. Bradley’s logic, we should “embrace” with understanding the one who strikes in domestic abuse and say not even a word for the victim. By Mr. Bradley’s logic, other awful/awesome (take your pick) “angry,” “pissed-off” “mosh-pit white dudes” should be “embraced,” too, like say Aryan Nation and the KKK. Such twisted thinking by a christian only seems possible when there is some Point one wants to drive into people. God bless all those who reach out to oppressors and the violent with the Gospel—yes, even Bull Connor needed Jesus—but Mr. Bradley’s way of making his Point is to skip over all judgment of sin and thereby effectively silence the victim of violence and injustice. If this article is typical of Mr. Bradley’s thinking about ministry, I’m speechless with horror that he is training pastors in my denomination.