Robert P. Jones
Iowa and the zombie myth about white evangelical support for Trump
By Robert P. Jones — January 17, 2024
(RNS) — There is little evidence that unchurched white evangelicals are the most supportive of Trump.
Mike Johnson embodies evangelicals’ embattlement strategy. It may be backfiring.
By Ruth Braunstein — November 6, 2023
(RNS) — The persecution complex that has emboldened evangelical culture for decades is putting it under strain.
The story of Emmett Till is the story of America
By Robert P. Jones — August 29, 2023
(RNS) — If we trace the historical stream further back, we can see, in Emmett Till’s story, America’s oldest struggles. Indeed, the land itself testifies to the cultural world in which Till’s murder was conceivable.
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy with Robert P Jones
By Jonathan Woodward — August 20, 2023
State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush interviews Dr. Robert P. Jones, CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, about his new book "The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future."
Poll: A third of Americans are Christian nationalists and most are white evangelicals
By Yonat Shimron — February 8, 2023
(RNS) — A new PRRI survey finds that 10% of Americans are avowed Christian nationalists and an additional 19% are sympathetic to its ideals. Among white evangelicals, nearly two-thirds are Christian nationalists or sympathizers.
Moving lightly through this world: Reflections on the weight of white Christian innocence
By Robert P. Jones — April 1, 2022
(RNS) — The persistent denial of our own culpability threatens to drown us all.
It’s the most ‘angry’ time of the year?
By Robert P. Jones — December 11, 2021
(RNS) — A new survey highlights just how angry vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans are with each other today.
Study: Most white evangelicals don’t want to live in a religiously diverse country
By Yonat Shimron — November 1, 2021
(RNS) — 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.
White Christian progressives can be nationalists too, ecumenical panel says
By Adelle M. Banks — October 14, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Liberal Christians are just as complicit with white nationalism that the Trumpites were that we saw on Jan. 6,’ a speaker said.
Kamala Harris is more than her gender and race. She is also the future of American religion.
By Yonat Shimron — August 12, 2020
(RNS) — ‘The Biden-Harris ticket looks a lot more like America’s future,’ said one demographer, ‘and the Trump-Pence ticket looks a lot more like America’s past.’
No major US religious groups approve refusing service to gays
By Lauren Markoe — June 21, 2017
(RNS) White evangelical Protestants and Mormons showed the highest rates of approval for those who cite their religious belief as the basis for denying service to gays — but still less than a majority within those two groups hold this opinion.
White evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons carried Trump
By Lauren Markoe — November 9, 2016
(RNS) Evangelical support for Donald Trump surged even as prominent evangelicals, including Southern Baptist Russell Moore, railed against Trump's behavior toward immigrants, women and other groups as un-Christian.
Catholics, the ultimate swing voters, lean heavily toward Clinton
By Lauren Markoe — October 31, 2016
(RNS) White Catholics and Latino Catholics part ways on Donald Trump.
Why a stout theological creed is not saving evangelical churches
By Tom Krattenmaker — August 10, 2016
(RNS) It’s interesting to juxtapose the emerging statistical reality with the rhetoric that has been common among evangelical leaders.
“White Christian America”
By Martin E. Marty — July 19, 2016
Is 'the end' a proper category to discuss the history and prospects of White Christian America?
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