Jonathan D King

Jonathan David King is a husband, father of three, and writer living in the micro-urban university town of Champaign, Illinois. Jonathan's writing carries with him experiences of a childhood in rural southern Illinois, an exchange student at the University of Cape Town, several years living and serving in the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis, TN with Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) practitioners, volunteer programs with refugees, immigrants, and international students,...See more

Jonathan David King is a husband, father of three, and writer living in the micro-urban university town of Champaign, Illinois. Jonathan's writing carries with him experiences of a childhood in rural southern Illinois, an exchange student at the University of Cape Town, several years living and serving in the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis, TN with Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) practitioners, volunteer programs with refugees, immigrants, and international students, and starting neighborhood house churches in Memphis, TN and in Champaign, IL. He formerly served as a campus minister at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he now works as a writer for a cancer research institute, the Cancer Center at Illinois. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Arts in Religion from Urbana Theological Seminary, where his thesis was Confession and Resistance: The Reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by South African Church Struggle Leaders during Apartheid (1948-1994). Jonathan is affiliated with Life Together House in Urbana, Illinois, and the Order of the Common Life, an ecumenical monastic order for the 21st century. Jonathan also writes the Words in the Wild newsletter on Substack. See less