How White Christians Should Confront Racist Histories

In this episode, our guest Robert P. Jones joins us to discuss his book, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity.

Robert P. Jones is CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, which won the 2021 American Book Award. He is also the author of The End of White Christian America, which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Jones writes regularly on politics, culture, and religion and has written for or been interviewed by CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Robert earned a Master of Divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in religion from Emory University in Atlanta.

Jones writes weekly at https://robertpjones.substack.com, a newsletter for those dedicated to the work of truth-telling, repair, and recovery from the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity.

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