Jonathan Walton
Jonathan Walton is Intervarsity's New York City Urban Project Director. Jonathan has worked to call students and volunteers to put their faith into concrete, sustainable action for the last 7 years, first as a member of World Vision's Speaker's Bureau and now as Director of InterVarsity's NYCUP. He is also the author of three books of poetry and short stories, an abolitionist investigator for the Not For Sale Campaign, and Board Member of the Love Kitchen in Washington Heights.
Walton is available to speak on a variety of topics, not limited to but including:
The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the arts and faith, "hard questions about God", justice and poverty, creative activism and strategic development.
Walton is also available to teach poetry workshops and guest lecture at every level (references available upon request).
After much prayer and consideration, Walton has made a 20-year commitment to His service to God and those who have yet to know Him.
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Email: nycurbanproject@gmail.com
Rachel Lloyd tells the moving story of her escape from the commercial sex trade in Europe, detailed in her memoir, Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale, at The Cooper Union’s Great Hall on Monday, March 5 at 6:30 PM. Jonathan Walton, NYCUP Director and poet will also perform “GEMS”. [...]
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NYCUP is proud to be a part of World Vision Acts’ ReLENTless Acts of Sacrifice. Six creative activists are inviting you to “Sacrifice” this Lent for the “least of these”. If you’re up for it, click here!
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Apple’s CEO Tim Cook says the company “cares about every worker” in its factories and that “no one in (the) industry is doing more to improve working conditions than Apple.” Of course, when it comes to issues of corporate responsibility, talk is cheap. What matters is not what Apple says, but what it does. [...]
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Make a list of the 18 things you’re most thankful for in your life. Nothing is too small as every good thing comes from God. Post one as your status on facebook. Meditate on that thing the rest of the day.
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Before you grab that bouquet, take a moment to pray for the people that plant, pick, prune and pass those blossoms from South and Central America and Africa all the way to your local florist. Take a look at this article from the International Labor Rights Forum. ILRF’s Fairness in Flowers Campaign has [...]
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Apple has heard the critics and is now ready to dig deeper into Foxconn’s working conditions. The iPhone maker announced today that it has asked the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an organization “dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide,” to investigate Foxconn facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China. The first inspections began this morning in the [...]
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Father, forgive us for singing songs with words that we really don’t believe, praying prayers that are empty and lack faith, and going to church only to be seen and have lunch with afterwards. Help us to desire a genuine encounter with the living God. Help us to desire your Kingdom and not our own. [...]
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The real crime is happening when no one’s looking and no one cares, not when every media outlet, advocate and cop has its sights set on it. As the founder and executive director of GEMS, the nation’s largest direct service provider to commercially sexually exploited and domestically trafficked girls and young women, and as a [...]
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