091 - White Too Long, feat. Robert P. Jones

AUG 17, 202058 MIN
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091 - White Too Long, feat. Robert P. Jones

AUG 17, 202058 MIN

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On this episode I speak with Robert P. Jones, founder and CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) about his new bombshell of a book, "White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity."<br /><br />Jones speaks about his growing up in the Southern Baptist Church in Texas and Mississippi, his growing awareness of the crisis festering within his faith community, and how he has come to understand the role that history and theology play in Christianity's support for white supremacy. Then he backs all that up by polling Americans about their attitudes about racial difference. What he found is not at all unexpected and yet somehow shocking all the same.<br />----------<br />LINKS<br />Buy "White Too Long" | <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781982122867" rel="noopener">https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781982122867</a><br /><br />Visit PRRI's website | <a href="https://www.prri.org/" rel="noopener">https://www.prri.org/</a><br /><br />Read "Christianity Will Have Power" in the New York Times | <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/evangelicals-trump-christianity.html" rel="noopener">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/evangelicals-trump-christianity.html</a>