Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is an author, preacher, and community-builder who has worked with faith-rooted movements for social change for more than two decades. He is Assistant Director for Partnerships at Yale Divinity School’s Center for Public Theology and Public Policy, an Associate Minister at St. Johns Missionary Baptist Church, and a Senior Democracy Fellow with the Public Religion Research Association. Together with his wife, Leah, he co-founded the Rutba House, a house of hospitality in Durham, NC, where he still lives with his family. Jonathan is the author of more than fifteen books, including the daily prayer guide Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, New Monasticism, The Wisdom of Stability, Reconstructing the Gospel, Revolution of Values, and most recently White Poverty, written with Bishop William J. Barber, II. He publishes the Substack “Our Moral Moment” with Bishop Barber, and co-hosts Red Letter Christians’ Monthly Morning Prayer.
Contributions
- June 3, 2026: Moral Resistance at Delaney Hall
- January 6, 2026: Epiphany
- December 31, 2025: Watch Night, the Emancipation Proclamation, and a New Year
- November 27, 2025: A Reflection from “Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals”
- August 29, 2025: A Pastoral Letter to Donald Trump
- May 17, 2025: The Catonsville Nine: Good Trouble
- May 11, 2025: Mother’s Day Reflections
- April 29, 2025: We Must Arrest the Attention of the Nation
- April 29, 2025: Special RLC Podcast: Arrest the Attention of the Nation… Moral Mondays in the Nation’s Capitol
- October 31, 2012: 21st Century Freedom Ride
- December 4, 2014: How the Unimaginable Happens
- September 22, 2014: Acting Like A State: ISIS, the US, and Jesus as Lord
- August 24, 2014: Moral Week of Action, Day 3: Equal Protection Under the Law
- August 20, 2014: Go to Hell: God's Gracious Word to American Christians
- May 1, 2014: Botched Oklahoma Execution Reveals Self-Deception
- November 16, 2013: Excerpt: Knock, knock. Welcome Everything
- July 28, 2013: Why I’m Fasting with the Dream 9
- March 27, 2013: Jesus, at Least, Opposed the Death Penalty
- January 5, 2013: Nonviolence for White People
- December 26, 2014: A Midnight Clear
- June 26, 2012: Sharing Stories at the Wild Goose Festival
- June 10, 2012: The Gospel of Rutba: Saved on the Streets of Iraq
- May 19, 2012: Dear Class of 2012
- May 3, 2012: You Can Help George Win a Van
- April 19, 2012: Should This Family Be Illegal?
- March 14, 2012: A Nonviolent Response to Joseph Kony
- December 21, 2011: Waiting with Mary: “Being” Rather Than “Doing”
- October 24, 2011: Waiting For St. Benedict: Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
- September 21, 2011: Choose Life for Troy Davis
- June 19, 2015: Making Sense of the Charleston Shooting
- March 28, 2016: The Racism Lurking Behind NC’s Anti-LGBT Law
- March 19, 2016: Facing America’s Extremism
- January 18, 2016: The Third Reconstruction for White Folks
- December 5, 2015: An Abundance of Friendship Drives Out Fear
- November 3, 2015: All Politics Are Local–Especially the Politics of Jesus
- October 23, 2015: Unlearning Whiteness
- September 6, 2015: Letter to a Carter County Jail
- August 4, 2015: Ferguson and Faith
- July 13, 2015: The Voting Rights Act’s Jubilee: A Necessary Interruption
- July 19, 2021: Announcing a Season of Nonviolent Moral Direct Action
- June 17, 2015: Bless the Good: How Red Letter Christians Bear Witness to God’s Love
- May 21, 2015: Been Down Into the South: A 21st-Century Freedom Ride (Part 2)
- May 20, 2015: Been Down Into the South: A 21st-Century Freedom Ride (Part 1)
- May 5, 2015: To Our Critics: We Seek the Christianity of Christ
- April 14, 2015: Giving Up Your “Spiritual Journey”
- March 8, 2015: Dreams, Deeds, and the Soul of Selma
- January 31, 2015: The LORD Will Raise a Prophet
- January 25, 2015: Radical Grace In A History of Race
- November 30, 2018: ICE’s War on Christmas
- December 12, 2016: “Merry Christmas” More Radical Than We Think
- December 16, 2016: Open Letter to King Herod: Why I Was Arrested at #NCGA
- March 17, 2017: Following Jesus in a Gilded Age
- May 17, 2017: Redeeming the Soul of America with ‘Reverend Resistance’
- December 24, 2017: Waiting for God in Sanctuary
- January 29, 2018: The Unveiling of Christian Nationalism
- March 26, 2018: How Jesus Saves Us from Slaveholder Religion
- April 27, 2018: Moment of Decision for Evangelicals
- May 11, 2018: #PoorPeoplesCampaign: 40 Days of Direct Action
- June 22, 2011: Is Revivalist Spirituality Still Relevant Today?
- February 27, 2019: The Right to Life in Creation
- June 4, 2019: #MoralWitnessWednesday: A Call to Prayer and Prophetic Action
- August 10, 2019: Pastoral Letter on the El Paso Shootings
- February 5, 2020: Voting for Our Own Souls
- March 13, 2020: Community In the COVID-19 Crisis
- March 29, 2020: The Work We Can Do During Quarantine
- June 24, 2020: What’s Next for the Poor People’s Campaign?
- May 18, 2022: Why #IStandWithJemar & Hope You Will Too
- October 7, 2016: #EvangelicalsAgainstTrump & the Struggle of Faith
- July 21, 2011: The Next American Revival
- April 16, 2011: Turning Again: Tax Day
- February 20, 2011: Let Us Pray. . .Together
- February 11, 2011: Faith Ignites Struggle for Justice, Now as in Past
- April 25, 2016: Acting with Jesus to Interrupt Injustice
- May 17, 2016: Pardon Us, Friends: Remembering Fr. Dan & the Catonsville 9
- May 26, 2016: Remembering Greg and the Grace of Feet
- June 23, 2016: On Pilgrimage with Saint Benedict (Part 1)
- June 24, 2016: On Pilgrimage with Saint Benedict (Part 2)
- June 25, 2016: On Pilgrimage with Saint Benedict (Part 3)
- June 26, 2016: On Pilgrimage with Saint Benedict (Part 4)
- July 1, 2016: On Pilgrimage: The Keepers of Freedom’s Story
- July 2, 2016: On Pilgrimage: Vocation In & Beyond the Church
- July 19, 2016: The Gospel Missing from the Convention Floor
- July 28, 2016: Rev. Barber’s Moral Vision for America
- August 5, 2016: Community Equity
- September 20, 2016: Franklin Graham, This Is Wrong
- November 4, 2016: On CNN: Our Vote Is Our Voice
- November 17, 2023: Evangelical Appeal to Moral Case for Cease-fire