Jonathan L. Walton

Jonathan Lee Walton (born June 22, 1973) is an American author, ethicist and religious scholar.

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.

In 2012, he was appointed the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church,[2] following the death of the Rev.

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] Walton was appointed dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity in April 2019.