Rev. Jonathan Page
Rev. Jonathan Page grew up in Wellesley and was baptized, confirmed, and ordained at the Wellesley Hills Congregational Church. He is a graduate of The Roxbury Latin School, Harvard College, and Yale Divinity School. Since graduating Yale, he served as the undergraduate chaplain at Memorial Church, Harvard University, the Senior Minister of United Church of Christ-Congregational in Ames, Iowa and First Congregational Church of Houston. He also taught for a year at Eton College in England and at Groton School in Groton, Mass.
Jonathan is passionate about churches and their role in society. Churches nourish the moral life of children, support adolescents through the pressures of middle and high school, foster community for adults of all ages, and are places to discover God through study, meditation, and service. Churches have been behind nearly every social movement that has changed society. They are laboratories of democracy and point our souls to the great truths of life. These values endure despite the increased secularization of our culture.
Jonathan is the author of Ringing the Gotchnag: Two American Missionary Families in Turkey, 1855-1922 (Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009). His writing has been published in numerous periodicals, and he is completing a theological novel set in Nigeria.