Jonathan McReynolds is a two-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist, bestselling author and Distinguished Professor at Virginia Union University. Across music, writing, teaching and conversation, his work examines what it takes for the person carrying a gift to become as developed as the gift itself.

His songs have made him one of contemporary gospel music’s most distinctive voices. His books extend that work into ambition, identity and spiritual formation. Through Jonathan Theory, he writes about faith, culture, creativity and the patient work of becoming. In classrooms and public conversations, he brings those worlds together with clarity, candor and an uncommon ability to make complex ideas useful.