Preparing for War! What Comes Next for White Christian Nationalists

Dr. Bradley Onishi, University of San Francisco, host of Straight White American Jesus podcast

After growing up in a non-religious home in Southern California, Brad Onishi converted to evangelicalism at a megachurch in his hometown at age fourteen. By twenty, he was married and in charge of a two-hundred-student youth group. After serving seven years in ministry, he decided to pursue a master’s in theology at Oxford. Soon after arriving in Oxford, he deconstructed his faith and began to study religion from a historical lens. Dr. Onishi subsequently received a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from UCSB. He teaches and researches Christian nationalism, the history of Evangelicalism, race and racism in American religion, gender, sex, masculinity, and secularism and secularity. He has taught at UCSB, the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley, Rhodes College, Skidmore College, Central Michigan University, Cal Lutheran University, and the University of San Francisco.