History Quote by Robert P. Jones

“it’s no longer possible to believe that White Christian America sets the tone for the country’s culture as a whole.”

— Robert P. Jones

“From the isolated, individualistic perspective of most white evangelicals and many other Americans, there really is no race problem other than bad interpersonal relationships.”

— Christian Smith

“Christians began to slip in the late 1990s, expanding the tent to include white Catholics helped perpetuate the illusion that White Christian America was…

— Robert P. Jones

“Non-Western expressions of Christianity, therefore, can be portrayed as inferior to the successful formula for ministry put forth by many white evangelicals in mainstream…

— Soong-Chan Rah

Trump's blatant racism and demonization of Muslims, Mexicans, and immigrants also serves as a foil for white evangelicals. By othering these groups, Trump allows…

— Anthea Butler

“This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.”

— Melanie Ross

“I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in America that…

— Adam Clayton Powell Jr

“Efforts to remove the Christian faith from subjects like American history distort the content of the subject. Just as wrong is the idea that…

— Ronald H. Nash

“A narrative of success propels white evangelicalism over and above other forms of American Christianity. Evangelicals often fail to embrace the important examples of…

— Soong-Chan Rah

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

— Christian Smith

I don't feel any sense of prioritizing white evangelicalism.

— Lecrae

The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most…

— John Stuart Mill