Ken welcomes professor, fellow podcaster, and author
Dr. Brad Onishi back to the podcast to talk about his new book -
Preparing for War - The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism and What Comes Next (release date: January 3, 2023)
. A long-time friend of the podcast, Brad has been busy after a major event in Denver focussed on
Christian Nationalism last month with a large audience both live and virtual. It featured major influencers and thinkers including
Robert P. Jones, Sam Perry, Katherine Steward, Larycia Hawkins, and his podcast partner,
Dan Miller. In addition to his regular podcast, Straight White American Jesus,. Brad is releasing a series on
The New Apostolic Reformation with
Professor Matthew Taylor, Ph.D. It's an expose on a growing movement advancing an extreme dominion version of Christianity. Brad introduces his book which traces what we now know as
Christian Trumpism from the 1960s to the present in the context of his own personal journey - beginning with his conversion in high school in Orange County (CA); the great mid-west and Southern migration to California, the
John Birch Society,
The Crystal Cathedral and
Robert Schuller, his own Friends Church (predominantly white) and
Friendship Baptist Church (predominantly black), to
Dr. James Dobson and his secular
eugenicist mentor,
Dr. Paul Pompenoe. Onishi fills in the background on two
Jericho Marches, featuring
Eric Metaxas,
Michael Flynn and
Alex Jones, which were a prelude to the
January 6 Insurrection. Finally, the two discuss the ways in which American Evangelicalism finds its roots in
The Lost Case Narrative of the South.
SHOW NOTES
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Preparing for War - The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--and What Comes
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