Straight White American Jesus is a religion and politics podcast that focuses on Christian nationalism and the Religious Right. Episodes appear three times per week in the form of host interviews, special thematic series, and weekly news roundups centered on religion and politics. Both hosts, Dan Miller (Landmark College) and Bradley Onishi (University of San Francisco) are former evangelical ministers who now use their training as scholars of religion to analyze and dissect past and present iterations of Christian nationalism in the United States. Straight White American Jesus has a monthly audience of 45k listeners and is downloaded 170,000+ times per month.
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Cody Musselman
Cody Musselman holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University and is a postdoctoral fellow at the John C. Danforth Center for Religion and Politics. She is an ethnographer of contemporary American religion, focusing on the intersections of religion, capitalism, materiality, the body, and health. Her current book project, “Spiritual Exercises,” observes how the structuring logics of American Christianity operate in the consumerist landscape of health, wellness, and fitness to understand how religion is enlisted in the politicized work of reforming the body. Her work has appeared in Religion Dispatches and in the 1/6 Project, a collaboration between the University of Alabama and the Smithsonian.
Zachary T. Smith
Zachary T. Smith earned a PhD in Sport Studies from the University of Tennessee and is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education at Penn State Harrisburg where he is also a faculty affiliate with the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore and the Penn State Center for the Study of Sport and Society. He is currently researching Christian fitness and combat cultures for a book tentatively titled “‘For God’s Sake, FIGHT!’: Christian Fitness Combatives and a Military Definition of Reality.”