Robert P. Jones The earliest phase of the Christian Right movement didn’t bridge the Protestant-Catholic divide The earliest phase of the Christian Right movement didn’t bridge the Protestant-Catholic divide. But when Protestant Christian Right leaders such as Jerry Falwell Sr. followed the advice of Catholic political…
Robert P. Jones Study: Most white evangelicals don’t want to live in a religiously diverse country The new American Values Survey from PRRI also shows that 60% of white evangelicals believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen. No other religious group comes close. https://religionnews.com/2021/11/01/study-most-white-evangelicals-dont-want-to-live-in-a-religiously-diverse-country/
Robert P. Jones Father Lucas recalled one zealous priest standing on the church steps with a bullwhip to discourage any blacks from attending services. As blacks began to pour into northern cities to escape oppression in the South as part of the “great migration” in the early nineteen hundreds, the Catholic Church responded by…
Robert P. Jones They refused to integrate The Baptist denominational history is not unique in American Christianity. Virtually all of the major white mainline Protestant denominations split over the issue of slavery. For example, Northern and Southern…
Robert P. Jones It is well beyond time… This book puts forward a simple proposition: it is time - indeed, well beyond time - for white Christians in the United States to reckon with the racism of our…
Robert P. Jones The link between political leaders and prominent white churches was not just incidental It would not be until I was well into a PhD program at Emory University in my thirties that I was confronted with the brutal violence that white Christians deployed…
Robert P. Jones Secessionist Religion After decades of regional tensions at the Triennial Conventions, where Baptists gathered to coordinate their church and missions work in the early eighteen hundreds, Baptists in the South brought the…
