You're Invited--Today at 1pm! Substack+Live Convo with Joy Reid about My New Book, BACKSLIDE
Join us for my public in-depth conversation about BACKSLIDE.
Dear Redeeming Democracy readers,
Join me and Joy-Ann Reid TODAY at 1pm ET for my first public in-depth conversation about my forthcoming book, Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy. My book is now available for pre-order wherever books are sold, and signed copies are available from my favorite local bookstore (see details below).
I hope you can join us! I’ve been working on this book for the last three years. It’s the most personal, the most unflinching, and the the most urgent book I’ve written. And this will be my first in-depth public conversation about it.
You do not need to register ahead of time. When the livestream begins, Substack should notify you by email or app push notification, depending on your notification settings. You can join from your phone or computer. When the livestream starts, tap the Substack notification, or open the Substack app and look for the live video in your Home feed / reading queue. Tap the video to watch, and use the chat/comment area below the video to participate. If you miss it, I’ll send around the video afterward.
Hope to see you soon!
Robby
More about BACKSLIDE
I’m so excited to be sending this official post that my new book, BACKSLIDE: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation after the Christian Turn Against Democracy, is now available for pre-order wherever books are sold.
As you may know, pre-orders play a big role in the success of a book. In fact, the single most important thing you can do to support an author is to pre-order his or her book. It signals to retailers that they should have sufficient copies on hand on publication day and encourages them to promote it in their own stores.
If you order now, the book will be delivered to your doorstep or device the day after Labor Day, September 8. What better way to kick off the fall as we face the consequential midterm elections? It’s available in hardcover, ebook, and audio book everywhere books are sold. (Note: Ordering through Bookshop or Amazon using the links below helps support this newsletter, while ordering a signed copy helps support my local independent bookstore, People’s Book).
Here’s what Joy and some other fellow travelers have had to say about the book:
“An urgent call to save our democracy―and the Christian faith―from the scourge of religious nationalism. Robert P. Jones infuses his call for an American reawakening in the language of the faith so many of us grew up with―one that prioritizes brotherhood over separation, and care for the least of these over selfishness and hate.”
―Joy-Ann Reid , New York Times best-selling author and host of The Joy Reid Show
“Jones stands as one of the most important Christian voices in our time. He confronts, unflinchingly, the ugliness at the heart of the white evangelical embrace of Trumpism. He calls those who believe and live the Gospel to confront authoritarianism directly and to refuse to break bread with those who embrace it in the name of the Christian faith. Backslide is a powerful jeremiad for these dark days and clarion call for us all!”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Princeton University; author of America, USA: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries
“With history as a guide, Robert P. Jones issues a clarion call to American Christians: choose either the way of Christ or complicity with a movement that preys on the vulnerable and privileges the few. Every American Christian should read this book and take its message to heart. This is our 1933.”
―Kristin Du Mez , New York Times best-selling author of Live, Laugh, Love and Jesus and John Wayne
I can’t wait for this book to make its way into the world and to share it with you all.
ICYMI: My Ongoing Series with Joy Reid on Countering White Christian Nationalism
In this latest episode of our series, Joy and I recount the White House religious festival (on the taxpayer dime) as a day of apostasy and right wing extremist politics.
Watch the segment:
Catch the whole Countering White Christian Nationalism series here.