Michael O EmersonMichael O. Emerson is the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Fellow in Religion and Public Policy at the Baker Institute, a policy research organization based at Rice University. He was the founding director of Rice's Center on Race, Religion, and UrbanLife. He is coauthor of Kingdom Racial Change: Overcoming Inequality, Injustice, and Indifference, The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith, and Blacks and Whites in Christian America. Read More Read Less