University of Southern California
USC Annenberg
  • About RD
  • Submissions
  • The Ashes Initiative
  • Contact
Religion Dispatches - Religion Dispatches Religion Dispatches
  • Racial Justice
    • Phoning It In: (Re)making Race and Religion in Zora Neale Hurston’s New Orleans Underworld
      Phoning It In: (Re)making Race and Religion in Zora Neale Hurston’s New Orleans Underworld
    • Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
    • Leo XIV: The (Great) Migrations Pope?
      Leo XIV: The (Great) Migrations Pope?
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
    • Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
    • HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
  • Christian Nationalism
    • The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation
      The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation
    • The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
      The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
    • Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
      Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
  • Politics
    • Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
    • Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism

Timothy King

Timothy is a graduate of North Park University in Chicago with degrees in both theology and philosophy. After graduation, he worked for the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago. Tim ran campaigns around food access, school funding reform, ex-offender issues, and youth homelessness. He developed and implemented organizing curriculums for high school to graduate level classes. After a brief stint as a campaign consultant, Timothy came on staff with Sojourners in 2008, where he served as Chief Strategy Officer until 2015. Timothy has been a guest on many radio shows and podcasts and his perspectives and work have been featured on ABC News, the BBC, TIME, CNN, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, and the Daily Beast, and he was a contributor to the 2014 book Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels. Timothy writes regularly about the intersection of faith and politics, and, most recently about his return to the family farm in New Hampshire. Read more of his work at Almost Home (www.timothymichaelking.com).

(A)theologies, ArchiveMay 29, 2015

Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What You Think It Means

By Timothy King

If religious kitsch is a guilty pleasure, one of my favorite indulgences is a graphic…

Read More
Archive, Culture, StoriesMay 13, 2015

Hicksters, Stickers, and Affection: Why I Left D.C. for the Family Farm

By Timothy King

Last November, I returned to my family’s farm in New Hampshire to celebrate Thanksgiving and…

Read More
(A)theologies, Archive, CultureApril 17, 2015

Six Overlooked Gems from the Future of World Religions Report

By Timothy King

The Leftovers: Hot HBO Drama or Hot New Religious Trend?

Read More

RELIGION DISPATCHES

Religion Dispatches is an award-winning, independent, non-profit source
for expert analysis at the intersection of religion, politics, and culture.


© Religion Dispatches
Back to top