Tony Jones is a leader in the Christian emerging church movement, a theologian, and an author.

He later graduated from Dartmouth College and attended both Fuller Theological Seminary and Princeton University, pursuing a doctorate at the latter.

[1] As a spokesperson with the emerging church movement, Jones was invited by a similar Jewish organization, Synagogue 3000, to speak at their 2006 meeting.

[5] Jones began attending Solomon's Porch in 2005, a church in South Minneapolis, and by April 2012, he was the group's "theologian-in-residence" and helped run workshops about connecting with congregants with 21st-century means.

[7] Religion Dispatches' Peter Laarman was pleasantly surprised by Jones' 2012 non-fiction book A Better Atonement; Laarman called Jones a celebrity in the emerging church movement, and recommended the book for "anyone who’s even considering whether 'that old-time religion' isn't quite good enough any more.