Brad Onishi
Brad Onishi
Axis Mundi Media
San Francisco, CA
Through creative storytelling, in-depth research, and interviews, Axis Mundi Media creates and distributes media resources that educate clergy, journalists, elected officials, professors, teachers, and the lay public about the ways religious nationalism, authoritarian movements, and extremist communities threaten democracy. Created by Dr. Bradley Onishi, co-host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast, Axis Mundi is designed to offer an alternative to right wing media education outlets such as Praeger U which spread misinformation and inaccurate, biased history.
About Brad: Brad Onishi received graduate degrees from UCSB, Oxford University, and L’institut catholique de Paris. As a scholar of religion, 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. Brad is co-host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast. Since 2018, SWAJ has been downloaded six million times and been assigned in dozens of universities across the world. It regularly appears on the Apple Politics charts ahead of shows from the New York Times, Vox, and Slate, and other national outlets. SWAJ docuseries, such as Charismatic Revival Fury and Monster in the Mirror, have been covered by NPR, the New York Times, and Yahoo News, and nominated for public scholarship awards.
Axis Mundi Media is a media platform designed to distribute reliable and relevant audio and video content for audiences who want to learn more about their world in order to transform it. In Latin, axis mundi refers to a line through the center of the earth connecting to its surface.
