White Christian Nationalism and the Capitol Riot: How did we get here and what comes next?

Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Brad Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left evangelicalism, would I have been there? Onishi, a religion scholar and former evangelical insider, believes the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical subculture's preparation for war. In this online forum led by ICJS Protestant scholar Matthew D. Taylor, taking place on the second anniversary of the Capitol Riot, Onishi will talk about his new book "Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next," in which he maps the origins of White Christian nationalism, with its steady blending of White grievance politics with evangelicalism, and traces its offshoots.