The End of White Christian America

Short Review: This is a mix of demographics, polling and recent religious and cultural history. It is well written and engaging even when I don't completely agree with the line of argument or the retelling of a historical argument.

I think that this is a book that particularly White evangelicals need to read, especially political conservative and rural or suburban residents. The shift in culture and demographics has already occurred. It isn't going to change back. But how we react to it matters a lot.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/end-of-white-christian-america/

Not particularly engaging, but it has some interesting historical notes on mainline and fundy Christianity, things I didn't learn as a child in a fundy church. I'm glad to have read it. But the conclusion left me cold. I have no desire to let white Christianity go gently into that good night. Jones speaks of helping white Christians ease into modernity and let them have some of their religious rights protected for a while. Jones basically contradicts himself and tells the rest of us to give them an inch. Civil rights don't work like that. They shouldn't. So in the end, what I was left with was extreme frustration with the author and a pinch of anger.