Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
@wilsonhartgrove.bsky.social
Author, preacher, & moral activist. Assistant Director & Lecturer, Yale Center for Public Theology & Public Policy. Substack: https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/
The people who voted to end the Republican supermajority in Mississippi’s Senate yesterday are saying the same thing as New Yorkers who elected Mamdani: we want an economy that works for all of us.
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The people who voted to end the Republican supermajority in Mississippi’s Senate yesterday are saying the same thing as New Yorkers who elected Mamdani: we want an economy that works for all of us.
Extremists want NC’s First Congressional district b/c they understand its power. Now is the time for us to come together & exercise our power for a Third Reconstruction of this nation.
Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Extremists want NC’s First Congressional district b/c they understand its power. Now is the time for us to come together & exercise our power for a Third Reconstruction of this nation.
Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
In the face of an authoritarian crisis, we have to reorient to the reality that there is no middle ground between two sides. The only political choice is for democracy or against it.
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
In the face of an authoritarian crisis, we have to reorient to the reality that there is no middle ground between two sides. The only political choice is for democracy or against it.
As U.S. District Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. heard arguments in federal court yesterday, Rev Ryan Stoess prayed for SNAP benefits to continue. Today, Judge McConnell’s order says they must under US law.
open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
October 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
As U.S. District Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. heard arguments in federal court yesterday, Rev Ryan Stoess prayed for SNAP benefits to continue. Today, Judge McConnell’s order says they must under US law.
open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
Moral Mondays have petitioned Congress since Ash Wednesday of this year to hear the prayers of people who will lose healthcare and food because of extreme federal budget cuts.
October 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Moral Mondays have petitioned Congress since Ash Wednesday of this year to hear the prayers of people who will lose healthcare and food because of extreme federal budget cuts.
Don’t miss Bishop William J. Barber, II’s message to the Dayton Democracy Summit - and all defenders of democracy in this moral moment.
Full speech at Our Moral Moment: ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/what-it-ta...
Full speech at Our Moral Moment: ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/what-it-ta...
October 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Don’t miss Bishop William J. Barber, II’s message to the Dayton Democracy Summit - and all defenders of democracy in this moral moment.
Full speech at Our Moral Moment: ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/what-it-ta...
Full speech at Our Moral Moment: ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/what-it-ta...
Our Moral Moment excerpt on MSNBC this week. Subscribe for free to get moral messages for this moment delivered to you first. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
October 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Our Moral Moment excerpt on MSNBC this week. Subscribe for free to get moral messages for this moment delivered to you first. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
Senator Ted Budd refused to hear from Sloan yesterday, but you can make sure everyone hears what he had to say about cuts to Medicaid at yesterday’s Moral Monday pray-in in Raleigh.
October 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Senator Ted Budd refused to hear from Sloan yesterday, but you can make sure everyone hears what he had to say about cuts to Medicaid at yesterday’s Moral Monday pray-in in Raleigh.
Members of Congress can say they didn’t believe the data that said people would lose their healthcare, but real people are starting to experience the pain.
Ted Budd locked his door and refused to answer our calls today, but Moral Mondays will be back.
Ted Budd locked his door and refused to answer our calls today, but Moral Mondays will be back.
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Members of Congress can say they didn’t believe the data that said people would lose their healthcare, but real people are starting to experience the pain.
Ted Budd locked his door and refused to answer our calls today, but Moral Mondays will be back.
Ted Budd locked his door and refused to answer our calls today, but Moral Mondays will be back.
Moral Mondays are holding pray-ins at Senate offices across the South today w/ people at risk of losing healthcare if the Senate doesn’t act immediately.
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Moral Mondays are holding pray-ins at Senate offices across the South today w/ people at risk of losing healthcare if the Senate doesn’t act immediately.
Maybe the most important thing about #NoKings is the opportunity for millions of Americans to get together & remember who we are. ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/we-are-ame...
October 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Maybe the most important thing about #NoKings is the opportunity for millions of Americans to get together & remember who we are. ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/we-are-ame...
No Kings today in Mayberry RFD.
Hundreds of folks on Main Street in Mount Airy, NC to defend the values Sheriff Andy taught us: no one is above the law.
Hundreds of folks on Main Street in Mount Airy, NC to defend the values Sheriff Andy taught us: no one is above the law.
October 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
No Kings today in Mayberry RFD.
Hundreds of folks on Main Street in Mount Airy, NC to defend the values Sheriff Andy taught us: no one is above the law.
Hundreds of folks on Main Street in Mount Airy, NC to defend the values Sheriff Andy taught us: no one is above the law.
In Chicago today, ICE did this to a 17-year old child.
This is the sort of stop Justice Kavanaugh imagined as a minor inconvenience.
What would you say if it were your child?
This is the sort of stop Justice Kavanaugh imagined as a minor inconvenience.
What would you say if it were your child?
October 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
In Chicago today, ICE did this to a 17-year old child.
This is the sort of stop Justice Kavanaugh imagined as a minor inconvenience.
What would you say if it were your child?
This is the sort of stop Justice Kavanaugh imagined as a minor inconvenience.
What would you say if it were your child?
Register now for an emergency briefing & planning session for Moral Mondays this coming Wednesday, October 8, at 8pm ET. secure.everyaction.com/qZa_iEHoYki_...
October 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Register now for an emergency briefing & planning session for Moral Mondays this coming Wednesday, October 8, at 8pm ET. secure.everyaction.com/qZa_iEHoYki_...
What this shutdown is really about… open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
October 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
What this shutdown is really about… open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
Nothing has more power to interrupt the myths that divide us than the beloved community that God makes possible.
October 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Nothing has more power to interrupt the myths that divide us than the beloved community that God makes possible.
With local faith leaders, Repairers of the Breach will host a mass meeting in LA this Friday. Join us.
September 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
With local faith leaders, Repairers of the Breach will host a mass meeting in LA this Friday. Join us.
We need the nonviolent power of God to confront the abuse of power that is putting soldiers on our streets. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
August 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We need the nonviolent power of God to confront the abuse of power that is putting soldiers on our streets. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
In local communities across America, Moral Mondays are bringing people together to say, “We don’t want a government that takes from the poor to give tax breaks to the rich.”
August 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
In local communities across America, Moral Mondays are bringing people together to say, “We don’t want a government that takes from the poor to give tax breaks to the rich.”
Wendy has dedicated 3 decades of her life to being a caregiver. After Congress passed its Big Deadly & Destructive Bill, she got a notice that the state of North Carolina will begin cutting all Medicaid reimbursements by up to 10%, starting October 1.
August 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Wendy has dedicated 3 decades of her life to being a caregiver. After Congress passed its Big Deadly & Destructive Bill, she got a notice that the state of North Carolina will begin cutting all Medicaid reimbursements by up to 10%, starting October 1.
Moral Mondays are happening across the South today to lift these voices of people who will be hurt first & worst by the policy violence of Trump’s Big Ugly Bill.
Here’s preview on local news in Jackson, MS & in USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Here’s preview on local news in Jackson, MS & in USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
July 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Moral Mondays are happening across the South today to lift these voices of people who will be hurt first & worst by the policy violence of Trump’s Big Ugly Bill.
Here’s preview on local news in Jackson, MS & in USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Here’s preview on local news in Jackson, MS & in USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
An important conversation w/ @velshi.com about where we go from here. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
July 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
An important conversation w/ @velshi.com about where we go from here. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
During the Senate’s vote-a-rama today, faith leaders & other demonstrators processed to the Capitol w/ 51 caskets to symbolize the 51,000 expected deaths next year if Congress moves forward with its cuts to healthcare.
38 moral witnesses were arrested.
38 moral witnesses were arrested.
June 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
During the Senate’s vote-a-rama today, faith leaders & other demonstrators processed to the Capitol w/ 51 caskets to symbolize the 51,000 expected deaths next year if Congress moves forward with its cuts to healthcare.
38 moral witnesses were arrested.
38 moral witnesses were arrested.
Don’t believe the lies about “waste, fraud, & abuse.” The proposed cuts in Trump’s big, ugly bill would take healthcare away from 16 million Americans, killing 51,000 people next year. Listen to people who know what these cuts mean.
June 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Don’t believe the lies about “waste, fraud, & abuse.” The proposed cuts in Trump’s big, ugly bill would take healthcare away from 16 million Americans, killing 51,000 people next year. Listen to people who know what these cuts mean.
Please help us make sure your Senator doesn’t vote to take healthcare away from 16 million Americans before listening to what it would mean for Sloan & Suvya. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...
June 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Please help us make sure your Senator doesn’t vote to take healthcare away from 16 million Americans before listening to what it would mean for Sloan & Suvya. open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...