Robert P. Jones
Robert P. Jones is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Robert P. Jones
Advent, race and the intimacy of Incarnation
By Robert P. Jones — December 3, 2021
(RNS) — If we take the Incarnation seriously, we have a responsibility to build a theology where all of humanity is assumed in the body of Jesus.
Kyle Rittenhouse, whiteness and a divinely ordained license to kill
By Robert P. Jones — November 20, 2021
(RNS) — The danger we're facing goes beyond a rogue killer.
The key to understanding America’s political divides? It’s the culture, stupid.
By Robert P. Jones — November 8, 2021
(RNS) — If we want to heal the soul of the nation and achieve our country, we can’t continue to paper-over racial injustice with economic policy.
Shutting down the manufactured critical race theory ‘debate’
By Robert P. Jones — October 29, 2021
(RNS) — The anti-CRT crusades are the worst form of policy, designed not to redress an actual social problem, but to sow resentment that is useful to political campaigns and culture wars.
7 things white Christians can do to address white supremacy at church
By Robert P. Jones — October 15, 2021
(RNS) — Simply start somewhere, and start somewhere local.
Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day? Getting to the heart of the American identity crisis
By Robert P. Jones — October 8, 2021
(RNS) — This belief in America as a divinely ordained white Christian nation — which has blessed so much brutality in our history — remains linked to denials of our past and support for political violence and anti-democratic sentiment in the present.
White Christian nationalism found fertile soil in post-9/11 America
By Robert P. Jones — September 22, 2021
(RNS) — Since the Bush era, the attitudes of Republicans, including white evangelicals who comprise the party’s base, have increasingly aligned with a worldview rooted in centuries of white supremacist theology.
Removal of Robert E. Lee leaves Arthur Ashe as Richmond’s remaining witness
By Robert P. Jones — September 8, 2021
(RNS) — A statue of the tennis great has outlasted the Confederate generals on Monument Avenue.
Despite white Christianity’s role in Capitol assault, some signs of hope and change
By Robert P. Jones — July 16, 2021
(RNS) — White Christians have only begun the work of reckoning with white supremacy.
Let’s celebrate this Fourth of July without the myth of white Christian innocence
By Robert P. Jones — July 2, 2021
(RNS) — Which will we honor — the Doctrine of Discovery or the Declaration of Independence?
Southern Baptists head for annual meeting at a crossroads on race and gender
By Robert P. Jones — June 4, 2021
(RNS) — In this moment of reckoning, white evangelical Protestants — the denominational family to which Southern Baptists belong — are increasingly out of step.
The path to herd immunity runs through America’s faith communities
By Eboo Patel and Robert P. Jones — May 24, 2021
(RNS) — Residents of many of the most vaccine-hesitant areas in the United States turn out to be remarkably receptive to faith-based interventions.
Taking the white Christian nationalist symbols at the Capitol riot seriously
By Robert P. Jones — January 7, 2021
(RNS) — The attack exposed the comfortable juxtaposition of Christianity and white supremacy.
For white Christians, racial justice starts with telling the truth
By Robert P. Jones — July 28, 2020
(RNS) — Perhaps the biggest obstacle to white Christians’ full participation in the movement for racial equality is an unshakable commitment to our own innocence.
Do You Believe? Americans Less Likely to Believe in Historical Accuracy of Christmas Story Than a Decade Ago
By Robert P. Jones — December 17, 2013
My latest column for Huffington Post Religion explores the findings of PRRI’s latest survey, conducted in partnership with Religion News Service and released just this morning, on the drop in the number of Americans who believe the Bible’s Christmas story is historically accurate.
