Robert P. Jones One of the most violent expressions of white supremacy One of the most violent expressions of white supremacy occured on Easter Sunday 1873 in the Baptist-dominated town of Colfax, Louisiana. The state was still reeling from defeat in the…
Robert P. Jones It’s the most ‘angry’ time of the year? By Robert P. Jones – A new survey highlights just how angry vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans are with each other today. https://religionnews.com/2021/12/11/its-the-most-angry-time-of-the-year/
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 Segregation 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 Why are White evangelicals embracing an anti-democratic movement? from the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/12/white-evangelicals-decline-spurs-an-anti-democratic-movement/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_opinions
Robert P. Jones The path to herd immunity runs through America’s faith communities Residents of many of the most vaccine-hesitant areas in the United States turn out to be remarkably receptive to faith-based interventions. By Robert P. Jones and Eboo Patel https://religionnews.com/2021/05/24/the-path-to-herd-immunity-runs-through-americas-faith-communities/
Religion News Service Public Religion Research Institute: White evangelicals, Hispanic Protestants, Mormons most likely to believe in QAnon The groups are also the most likely to consume far-right media, which researchers noted is 'by far the strongest independent predictor of QAnon beliefs.' https://religionnews.com/2021/05/27/survey-white-evangelicals-hispanic-protestants-and-mormons-most-likely-believe-in-qanon/
Robert P. Jones Underneath the glossy, self-congratulatory histories 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…
Uncategorized This secessionist religion not only survived but also thrived 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…
