There's been two major shootings in the last two weeks. I try to piece together some thoughts, and combine a couple things from recent essays, in the intro to this re-released episode with Robert Jones. I guess it's best to just listen.

Essays I adapt for the intro:

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Let the circle be broken.

Over the weekend, a racist massacre occurred in Buffalo, NY. The gunman was a white supremacist young man who drove across the state to enact his crime. I am not here to valorize or center his narrative through some morbid fascination. The New York Times has a summary of events, and what has been learned about this vile person’s motivations…

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a year ago · 6 likes · 2 comments · Blake Chastain

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Live Free and Die

We live in an unending cascade of tragedy, stretching back decades. Columbine. Virginia Tech. Sandy Hook. Charleston. Las Vegas. Buffalo. Uvalde. And thousands more names and places affected by gun violence. Words are cheap and hollow. It is not an election that was stolen but our hope…

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10 months ago · 6 likes · Blake Chastain

The interview is part of season 1 of Powers & Principalities, which is about white evangelicalism & Christian nationalism.

Robert Jones now writes a Substack publication with the same name, White Too Long. Subscribe here:

White Too Long by Robert P. Jones

A weekly newsletter by author Robert P. Jones. For those dedicated to the work of truth-telling, repair, and healing from the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity.

Interview description:

My guest is Robert Jones, founder and CEO of PRRI (The Public Religion Research Institute), and author of the recent book White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Amazon, Bookshop). In this discussion, we talk about how his book reveals the ways white American Christianity's history of white supremacy pervades all denominations - white evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and white Catholics. We discuss the "restricted moral vision" of white Christians, the findings of the Racism Index, and much more.

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