Jonathan Arnold

Jonathan Arnold is a priest, musician, and author. He is currently Executive Director of the Social Justice Network in the Diocese of Canterbury, which has a portfolio that evolves in response to times of crises and includes migration and refugees, social issues of debt, hunger, homelessness, modern slavery and exploitation, the rehabilitation of ex-offenders and rural justice. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent, an Associate of Sidney De Hahn Centre for Arts and Health here at Canterbury Christ Church Canterbury University, and sings professionally with ensembles such as The Sixteen, Orlando Consort, Ora, and The Gabrieli Consort

Jonathan was formerly Dean of Divinity and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was tutor in ecclesiastical history and chair of examiners for the theology faculty. He has also been Chaplain and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. In 2014 he co-founded a new girl choristers’ choir for Oxford, Frideswide Voices. He has published widely. His latest book is The Everyday God: Encountering the Divine through the Works of Mercy (2024); Other books include Music and Faith: Conversations in a Post-Secular Age (2019); Sacred Music in Secular Society (2014); The Great Humanists (2011) and Dean John Colet of St. Paul’s (2007).