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Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation.

As the nation grapples with demographic changes and the legacy of racism in America, Christianity’s role as a cornerstone of white supremacy has been largely overlooked. But white Christians—from evangelicals in the South to mainline Protestants in the Midwest and Catholics in the Northeast—have not just been complacent or complicit; rather, as the dominant cultural power, they have constructed and sustained a project of protecting white supremacy and opposing black equality that has framed the entire American story.

With his family’s 1815 Bible in one hand and contemporary public opinion surveys by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) in the other, Robert P. Jones delivers a groundbreaking analysis of the repressed history of the symbiotic relationship between Christianity and white supremacy. White Too Long demonstrates how deeply racist attitudes have become embedded in the DNA of white Christian identity over time and calls for an honest reckoning with a complicated, painful, and even shameful past. Jones challenges white Christians to acknowledge that public apologies are not enough—accepting responsibility for the past requires work toward repair in the present.

White Too Long is not an appeal to altruism. Drawing on lessons gleaned from case studies of communities beginning to face these challenges, Jones argues that contemporary white Christians must confront these unsettling truths because this is the only way to salvage the integrity of their faith and their own identities. More broadly, it is no exaggeration to say that not just the future of white Christianity but the outcome of the American experiment is at stake.

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"This book is a marvel. It manages to quietly excoriate the insidious, entrenched attitudes that continue to sow racial hatred and division and to show the large and small ways that they continue. Devoid of moralizing, this powerful, heavily researched and annotated book is a must-read for religious leaders and academics." ― Booklist (starred review)

"A concise yet comprehensive combination of deeply documented religious history, social science research about contemporary religion, and heartfelt memoir. . . . An indispensable study of Christianity in America." ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“White Too Long is a powerful and much needed book. It is a direct challenge to white Christians to finally put aside the idolatry of whiteness in order to release the country and themselves into a different possibility. With clarity of moral vision, historical nuance, and the sensitivity of an artist’s pen, Jones has written a critical book for these troubled times.” -- Eddie S. Glaude Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University; author of Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lesson for Our Own

“In White Too Long, Robert Jones offers both searching personal testimony and a rigorous look at the facts to call white Christians to account for the scandalous ways white supremacists have regularly distorted and manipulated a faith dedicated to love and justice to rationalize racism. Jones is a rare and indispensable voice in our public conversation about religion because he combines painstaking data analysis with a sure moral sense. May this book encourage soul-searching, repentance, and conversion.” -- E. J. Dionne Jr., Columnist for The Washington Post; author of Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country

"Jones builds his case with evidence, drawing on an eclectic blend of history, theology, sociology and memoir. . . . It’s hard to argue with his conclusion that white supremacy is somehow genetically encoded into white Christianity in the United States. . . . Challenges people of faith to chart a new path forward." -- Jemar Tisby ― The New York Times

“Robert P. Jones’s searing White Too Long brilliantly argues that his fellow white Christians must dissent from their received faith and embrace a theology of racial justice. White Too Long is a prophetic call of redemption for folk who have too often idolized whiteness and worshipped America instead of the God of Martin, Fannie Lou and Jesse.” -- Michael Eric Dyson, University Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University; author of Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

“White Too Long is meticulously researched and compelling throughout. It’s also a damning moral indictment of the way white supremacy has infected the white church in the United States from its very beginnings—which lays bare the need, now more than ever, for white Christians to systematically repent of white supremacy.” -- Jim Wallis, Founder and President of Sojourners; author of Christ in Crisis? Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus

“With integrity and vulnerability, Jones exposes the subtle but profound compatibility between white supremacist ideology and white Christian theology. This remarkably courageous, must read book helps white Christians in America finally face the question Jones had to ask himself, ‘Can you be “white” and Christian?’” -- The Very Reverend Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary; Canon Theologian, Washington National Cathedral

"A refreshing blend of historical accounting, soul-searching reflection, and analysis of white supremacy within the American Christian identity. . . . Jones’s introspective, measured study is a revelatory unpacking of influence and history of white Christian nationalism."

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Robert P. Jones is the CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and a leading scholar and commentator on religion and politics. Jones writes a column on politics, culture, and religion for The Atlantic online. He is frequently featured in major national media, such as CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. He holds a PhD in religion from Emory University and a MDiv from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of The End of White Christian America, which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Illustrated edition (July 28, 2020)
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Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1982122862
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1982122867
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

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Robert P. Jones is the President and Founder of PRRI and a leading scholar and commentator on religion, culture, and politics. He is the author of:

* “White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity,” winner of a 2021 American Book Award; and

* “The End of White Christian America,” winner of the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Jones writes a regular newsletter at https://robertpjones.substack.com.

Jones also has bylines at The Atlantic online, TIME, NBC Think, and Religion News Service and is frequently featured in major national media such as MSNBC, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. Jones serves on the Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion for the American Academy of Religion. He holds a Ph.D. in religion from Emory University, a M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a B.S. in computing science and mathematics from Mississippi College. Jones was selected by Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion as Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 2013, and by Mississippi College’s Mathematics Department as Alumnus of the Year in 2016.

Before founding PRRI, Jones worked as a consultant and senior research fellow at several think tanks in Washington, D.C., and was an assistant professor of religious studies at Missouri State University.

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Robert Jones has provided readers with a scathing indictment of white Christian America. He examines the historical record to show that American Christianity’s theological core has been thoroughly structured by an interest in protecting white supremacy and uses public opinion survey data to show a positive correlation between white supremacy and Christianity in contemporary society. And not just evangelicals but a majority of mainline denominations as well as Catholics.
As just one of the many historical examples consider the following more recent event. In 1965 Jerry Falwell declined to participate in the civil rights movement. According to Falwell, “Preachers are not called to be politicians, but to be soul winners.” In 1979, however, after Bob Jones University lost its tax-exempt status over its racially discriminatory policies, Falwell formed his own political organization, the Moral Majority. Now, according to Falwell, “The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the devil”. As Jones explains, what appears to be a contradiction is merely a tactical maneuver when one realizes that the primary goal is to defend white supremacy. When white supremacy was secure Falwell found a Biblical mandate for eschewing politics. When white supremacy was threatened he found a mandate for political organizing.
Particularly informative is the chapter on the methods and findings of his statistical analysis. According to Jones, “the overall pattern that emerges is abundantly clear… the more racist attitudes a person holds, the more likely he or she is to identify as a white Christian.” And again, although evangelicals are typically the worst they are by no means alone. For example, while evangelicals claim the warmest feelings for African Americans while simultaneously scoring highest on the Racism Index, the pattern holds for mainlines and as well as Catholics. Evangelicals lead the pack elsewhere as well. Those holding racist views are almost four times more likely to be frequent church attenders. Although Jones doesn’t say so this would seem to follow from the method of choosing ministers. For Southern Baptists, the largest evangelical denomination, choosing a minister is a strictly local affair. A racist congregation would be more likely to select a racist minister. Of course the corollary to all this is that the religiously unaffiliated are much less likely to hold racist attitudes. It has been my conviction for quite some time that the moral compass of the non religious is truer than the church goer’s but it’s nice to have it confirmed by no less than a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
The book has a short section on how the Confederate battle flag has taken on a more political and ideological meaning. These flags are fairly common in my rural southern community but I’ve tried to put a positive spin on it. At Bill Engvall’s suggestion I have employed them as warning signs for people to be avoided. Based on Jone’s analysis it appears that Christian imagery serves the same function more often than not. What else is one to make of his suggestion that a white supremacist recruitment drive would have better luck in the church parking lot on Sunday morning than among the backsliders in the local coffee shop?

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In 1965 Dr. King called a Preacher's march to Selma Alabama, Ministers from all over the US of different Denominations came to march with him, my Pastor was one of them. What they found was a culture shock of their southern versions who ran segregated churches preaching antimiscegenation, things they thought were contrary to what they believed the gospel said, and these people were comfortable teaching and spreading it. As some of these pastors came back home it was also apparent that as they were also ministering to all-white congregations in all-white neighborhoods the race problem might not be just confined to the South.

Though Jones doesn't tell that story (I wish he would) he doesn't spare "Northern" Ministers nor Catholics in his books, nor does he start way back at Columbus, he integrates his own family experience and teachings in the deep south for an interesting experience. Much of it Subtle the rest of it in the face. The fact is no racial law or policy in the United States was ever passed without approval from the Church. In the South, the Baptist separated and started their own organization in support of slavery and the (what he shows) the Confederate Cause making Saints out of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson (this is why their statues should be torn down) in Statues and in stained glass windows of their Churches. Later when Slavery was outlawed they continued with Jim Crow and Segregation, Jones has shown how their "Bible driven beliefs have fueled historical right-wing hostility to any sort of African-American attempts at progress from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter is it any wonder that leading southern evangelist like Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and their successors have never been friendly any sort of Black Progress? It seems many white Christians take the blond-haired blue-eyed European vision of Jesus, seriously the Christian religion to them is a white person's religion.
Jones sites from the book "Divided by Faith" which I have read and encourage others to as well, it polls white evangelical Christians on their true feelings on race as opposed to what their faith teaches them. I am also impressed he gives insight into the Dylan Roof massacre and the people that are behind Trump. He ends with some examples of black and white Christians coming together. I fear there is one major point he is missing I hope to correspond to him with: In order to Justify the subjugation of the black race over the millennia, certain adjustments had to made in the bible and how it was taught over the generations. Jones talks about Blacks being the descendants of Ham and having the mark of Cain, one I never heard before. The one I always grew up with was a twist of the bible story were Noah's son Ham upon seeing him passed out drunk and naked outside his tent (it is against Hebrew law to see your father naked) takes a chance and drags him back inside, but Noah wakes up and curses him and his descendants and the revised bible has each of Noah's son's starting a race upon the landing of the Ark guess which race Ham starts? My point is when people are taught this as part of their holy gospel it's going to be a lot harder to overcome their prejudices. A book I read called "Black and Mormon" discusses the same problems of trying to reach out to a people your bible labels as cursed. I wish Jones would explore this further.

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I bought several well researched books about evangelicalism and racism. This was the best.

The author has stellar southern evangelical credentials. But his thoughtful examination of the evangelical perpetuation of racism is based on evidence. His sorrow is that while his parents taught him to treat everyone with dignity, the churches where he learned and served never examined their racial sins.

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