Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

assistant director at the Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a preacher and spiritual writer in Durham, North Carolina, and assistant director at the Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. With the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, he is author of the forthcoming book “White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy (Liveright).


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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

8mos ago
MS NOW Opinion

We’re coming to Washington to preach that Mike Johnson’s prayers are not like ours

Though we were arrested and carried away, we have not stopped praying. Moral Monday is back at the Capitol today.

1year ago
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North Carolina Republicans’ power grab reveals their deepest fear

This vote actually reveals the weakness of America’s anti-democracy movements.

1year ago
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Kamala Harris isn’t just listening to workers. She’s sounding like them.

“When we fight, we win!” Harris has said in stump speeches. That’s been a standard rallying cry since McDonald’s workers first organized the Fight for 15 more than a decade ago.

2years ago
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What to say to your child when Christian nationalists threaten to bomb his library

A public library, like any public good, is something to be shared by all people, whatever their beliefs. Adherents to Christian nationalism believe otherwise.

3years ago
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The North Carolina Supreme Court just took a hatchet to democracy

Voting rights must can no longer be the special interest of legacy civil rights organizations. We need an all-hands-on-deck response to this crisis.

3years ago
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Here’s the ultimate truth about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘national divorce’ myth

Far too many Americans accept the premise that we are a country divided between red states and blue states.