Bethesda Magazine's Novembers/December 2020 Book Report
By Caralee Adams | February 8, 2021 Robert Jones’ book White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Simon & Schuster, July 2020) is a call for white Christian churches to confront their racist pasts and take action toward reconciliation. A white Southern Baptist who grew up in Mississippi, Jones is CEO and founder of the Washington, D.C.-based Public Religion Research Institute, which has tracked public opinion surveys that show holding racist views is associated with white Christian identity. “It’s very unsettling,” says Jones, who lives in Takoma Park. ...