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White Too Long: How Racism Lives in the DNA of White Christianity in America
Episode 76

White Too Long: How Racism Lives in the DNA of White Christianity in America

The Jim Wallis Podcast · District Productive

September 14, 202256m 34s

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Show Notes

In this very special episode of Soul of the Nation, we revisit our conversation with Robert P. Jones, from July 2020.

Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute and the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity, speaks with Rev. Jim Wallis about how white American Christianity and white supremacy collaborate throughout our nation's history. 

Jones says, "[Racism is] very, very deep in [white Christian] theology and it's going to take more than a couple of potlucks with the African American church down the street. It's going to take a serious reconsideration of evangelical theology top to bottom. I liken it to something like a bone marrow transplant. It's so deep that you basically have to kill the immune system and bring someone close to death in order to finally bring them to health. I think that's the situation we're in after hundreds of years of this being built into the very DNA of white Christian identity in this country."



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