Robert P. Jones
Robert P. Jones is an author at Religion News Service.
All Stories by Robert P. Jones
What, to the white American, is the 19th of June?
By Robert P. Jones — June 19, 2024
(RNS) — One model for creating a new “season of critical patriotism” can be found in the Jewish High Holy Days.
Trump the totem
By Robert P. Jones — June 4, 2024
(RNS) — Like other fascist leaders, Donald Trump has transposed himself from a man to a symbol. And that's the danger.
Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle
By Robert P. Jones — April 30, 2024
(RNS) — The overlooked religious middle is poised to play an outsized role in the 2024 presidential contest.
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.
With ‘vermin,’ Trump crosses fully into Nazi territory
By Robert P. Jones — November 16, 2023
(RNS) — Trump’s most recent comments should jar us back to our senses.
Columbus Day celebrates an ongoing threat to American democracy
By Robert P. Jones — October 6, 2023
(RNS) — A federal holiday day at odds with our identity as a pluralistic democracy.
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.
Why a Trump indictment will matter so little to most of his Christian supporters
By Robert P. Jones — March 24, 2023
(RNS) — Consider just a few of the public revelations and remarks by Trump since 2016 and how little they affected white evangelicals' loyalty to him.
Five charts that explain the desperate turn to MAGA among conservative white Christians
By Robert P. Jones — March 14, 2023
(RNS) — White Christians’ attempt to halt their demographic slide has fostered two narratives of American life.
What the history of ‘Judeo-Christian’ can teach us about fighting Christian nationalism
By Eboo Patel and Robert P. Jones — July 20, 2022
(RNS) — It’s time to say good-bye to ‘Judeo-Christian’ America, but we can learn from its example.
This Supreme Court’s dangerous vision of ‘history and tradition’
By Robert P. Jones — July 4, 2022
(RNS) — In the South, we know what euphemisms like this one mean — and what they lead to.
The beloved community and the heresy of white replacement
By Robert P. Jones — May 16, 2022
(RNS) — How 'Beyoncé Mass' gave me hope after the Buffalo massacre.
Alito and public opinion reveal link between Roe and broader white Christian nationalist agenda
By Robert P. Jones — May 4, 2022
(RNS) — Attitudes on abortion are strongly correlated with a worldview that denies systemic racism and pines for a 1950s America.
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.
The sacred work of white discomfort
By Robert P. Jones — January 27, 2022
(RNS) — Holding a more truthful understanding of history gives us more agency, not less.
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