Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at

Skidmore College. Our show is hosted in partnership with the CAP center at the University of California

Santa Barbara.

And my guest today is Dr. Kelly J. Baker.

Dr. Baker has an amazing bio, an amazing set of accomplishments and I want to just highlight

a couple of those.

Kelly is the editor of Women in Higher Education, which is a feminist newsletter.

Also, the editor of the National Teaching and Learning Form,

has written all over the place from the New York Times to the Atlantic the

Rumpus religion of politics Christian century Washington Post and many other

places and is the author of a book that we are going to talk about today which is

Gospel According to the Clan the K K K K's Appeal to Protestant America. Also the

author of Grace Period, a memoir in pieces, the award-winning Sexism Ed,

essays on gender and labor and academia.

The zombies are coming, the realities

of the zombie apocalypse in American culture,

which we might talk about a little bit today.

And final girl and other essays on grief, trauma, and mental illness.

So Dr. Baker, thank you for being here once again.

This is your second time on the show,

and I'm really grateful you came back.

Thank you for having me. I'm hyped.

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