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Robert P. Jones is a New York Times bestselling author and the president and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). He is the author of BACKSLIDE: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy (2026); The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future (2023); White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (2020), which won a 2021 American Book Award; and The End of White Christian America (2016), which won the 2019 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Jones writes regularly on politics, culture, and religion for The Atlantic, TIME, Religion News Service, and other outlets. He is frequently featured in major national media, such as CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New
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“It's nothing short of astonishing that a religious tradition with this relentless emphasis on salvation and one so hyperattuned to personal sin can simultaneously maintain such blindness to social sins swirling about it, such as slavery and race-based segregation and bigotry.”
Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

“But if we white Christians are going to get any critical leverage on our past, and the distortions this past has brought into our present, we have to let go of both the quest for self-protection—that is to say, the advantages we hoard at unjust costs to others—and the insistence on our racial and religious innocence.”
Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

“In other words, the Confederate monument phenomenon was no innocent movement to memorialize the dead; it was primarily a twentieth-century declaration of Lost Cause values designed to vindicate white supremacy and bolster white power against black claims to equality and justice. These Confederate monuments, strategically placed in public spaces, are deposits left by the high tide of white supremacy.”
Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

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