Showing posts with label Robert P. Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert P. Jones. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Understanding the Threat of White Christian Nationalism: Important New Report from PRRI and Brookings

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On 8 February, Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and Brookings Institution released the results of an important national survey enti...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

The U.S. Has a White Christian Problem, and It's Imperiling American Democracy: My Commentary on New PRRI Report re: American Attitudes Towards Immigrants

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Today, Public Religion Research Group (PRRI) published results of a study it has just done entitled " Are Immigrants a Threat? Most Ame...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Robert P. Jones on Recent Elections and Abortion Issue, and My Question Again: Whither U.S. Catholic Leaders Now?

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I headed the posting I just made about two valuable upcoming discussions of white Christian nationalism in the U.S. with a video from Joy A...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

As Election Day Arrives, Warnings, Predictions, Alarm Bells

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Alarm bell mechanism, from " Electric Burglar Alarm ,"  The Popular Science Monthly 18,1 (November 1880), p. 59   As Joyce Vance s...
Friday, November 4, 2022

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Structural racism beliefs by party affiliation, 2022 PRRI American Values Survey Philip Bump comments on an ad just released by Steven Mill...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Robert P. Jones on 2022 PRRI American Values Survey: White Christian Nationalist Beliefs Now Affirmed by Half of Republicans and Half of White Evangelicals

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Robert P. Jones explains the significance of key findings of the latest American Values Survey , released this past week by his PRRI group:...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

In the News: PRRI American Values Survey, Assassination Attempt on Pelosi, Alito's Victimization Claims

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Photo of stack of newspapers by Daniel R. Blume, Wikimedia Commons 1. Philip Bump writes ,  As the 2016 election approached, it became clea...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

National Catholic Reporter Review of Sarah Posner, Unholy — "Sarah Posner's 'Unholy' implicates Catholics as well as evangelicals"

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Here's a review I wrote of Sarah Posner's Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump , which appeared in th...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Valuable Recent Commentary about Link Between White Supremacy and White Christianity in the U.S.

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I'm sorry to have been away for so long. As I noted in a posting some weeks back, we have been dealing with health challenges, and we...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Robert P. Jones's White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity — Excerpts Worth Noting

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As I did recently with Sarah Posner's new book   Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump , I'd like to s...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

More Valuable Commentary about Robert P. Jones's White Too Long

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New interviews with Robert P. Jones keep coming along after the recent publication of his book  White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremac...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Valuable Commentary about Robert P. Jones's White Too Long

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As a companion piece to my recent announcement of the publication of Robert P. Jones's book  White Too Long: The Legacy of White...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Robert P. Jones's White Too Long Published Today: A Must-Read Book about American Christianity and White Supremacy

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No matter how distracted and enervated I may be at present as we cope with some health issues , I can't let today pass by without not...
Friday, June 19, 2020

PRRI's Robert P. Jones in Juneteenth Interview: Trump Presidency a "Moment of Reckoning for White Christians"

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8 in 10 white evangelicals, 6 in 10 white Catholics & Mormons, 50%+ of all US white Christians, set this nightmare into motion, claim...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

Want to Know Why, Even Now, More Than Half of US White Christians Stand with Trump? See Robert P. Jones on GOP's White Christian Strategy

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1/ THREAD: For the second time this week, Donald Trump used a church as a photo op. This image released this morning shows the President ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Notes on Gerardo Marti's American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency

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I recently read Gerardo Marti's American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency  (London: Rowman & Little...
Friday, December 20, 2019

At Long Last, Christianity Today Lowers the Boom — "It's Time to Call a Spade a Spade" — & Republicans Rage

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Christianity Today was founded by Billy Graham, the most prominent evangelical figure in modern history. It is a vehemently anti-choice, c...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Ed Kilgore on White Evangelicals as Heart of Trump Base: "Committed to a Common Desire to Take America Back to Its Days of Greatness in the 1950s"

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In " White Evangelicals Are Still the Heart of Trump's Base ," Ed Kilgore comments on new Pew Research Center data tha...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Yes, More on Catholic MAGA Boys: Conversation White Americans (& Especially White Christians) Refuse to Have, or Why Trump Is in the White House

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Nothing has changed, essentially, since Robert P. Jones offered us the analysis of our serious cultural-political-religious crisi...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Hell of a Week: "Americans Who Mandate a Close, Symbiotic Relationship btw Christianity & Civil Society Are Deeply Opposed to Federal Gun Control Legislation"

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With yet another tragic mass shooting, the #GunControl debate will yet again take center stage. One reason for the intractable nature o...