1. Early life and education

2. Career

3. Awards and Honors

4. Personal life

5. References

6. External links

Early life and education

Walton was born in Frederick, Maryland to John H. Walton and Rose Marie Walton. His father was an air traffic controller with the Federal Aviation Administration and his mother was a homemaker. His family moved to Syracuse, New York before settling in Atlanta, Georgia in 1980.

In 1991, Walton graduated from Lithonia High School and attended Wofford College on a football scholarship. He transferred to Morehouse College following his freshman year and graduated in 1996 with a BA degree in political science. Walton also became a licensed minister that same year and entered the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1999, completing his MDiv in 2002 and his PhD in 2006.

Career

Walton began his professional career as a minister while pursuing his academic studies. He served as the officiating pastor of Memorial West Presbyterian Church in Newark, New Jersey.

In 2003, he was appointed a lecturer at Princeton University’s Department of Religion and The Program in African American Studies. He accepted a position as assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of California in 2006.^[1]

Walton joined the faculty at Harvard University in 2010, accepting a position as assistant professor of African American Religions, Harvard Divinity School, and resident scholar of Lowell House, Harvard College. Two years later (2012), he was appointed the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church,^[2] following the death of the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, who served in the position for 41 years.^[3]

Walton is a member of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and professor of Religion and Society at the Harvard Divinity School. He also serves on several boards and committees at Harvard as well as the Board of Trustees at Princeton Theological Seminary, and the National Advisory Board of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.

Much of Walton’s scholarship is focused on evangelical Christianity, and its relationship to mass media and political culture. His first book, [https://nyupress.org/books/9780814794524/ Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism] (NYU Press 2009), examines the theological and political traditions of African American religious broadcasters.

His work and insights have been featured in several national and international news outlets including the New York Times,^[4] CNN,^[5] Huffpost^[6] and Time Magazine.^[7] Walton is an outspoken advocate for oppressed and vulnerable people in society.^[8]

Walton’s latest book A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in Its World for Our World (Westminster John Knox Press 2018)[https://www.wjkbooks.com/Products/0664263542/a-lens-of-love.aspx], is an extension of his work from the pulpit and classroom. The book is the interpretative exploration of the Bible from the perspective of the most vulnerable and violated characters in scripture. A Lens of Love is an aid for Christians who seek to be rooted in faith while pursuing professional lives that are just, ethical and challenge inequity.

In his endorsement of the book, Cornel West, the American philosopher, political activist, author and Harvard professor said Walton “is one of the very few grand figures in American culture who is both public intellectual and prophetic preacher. His brilliant work and visionary words are legendary at Harvard and throughout the country and world. This timely book is another testament to his calling rooted in the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Benjamin Elijah Mays, Reinhold Niebuhr and Fannie Lou Hamer.”^[9]

Awards and Honors

• Benjamin Elijah Mays Distinguished Alumni Award in Religion, Morehouse College, 2017.
• Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree, Wake Forest University, 2015.
• Young Scholars in American Religion 2009-2011, Center for Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University.
• Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, UC Riverside, 2007.

Personal life

Walton and his wife, Cecily Cline Walton and their three children live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Atlanta, Georgia.

References

External links

• [https://jonathanlwalton.com/ Jonathanlwalton.com]
• [https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/sermons-jonathan-l-walton Professor Jonathan L. Walton: Sermons & Addresses 2016-17]

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