The Revd Jonathan Aitken
NEWS (For Jonathan's sermons please go to the sermons page)
17 January 2024 Seen & Unseen Rory Stewart: re-enchanting politics and public service
On the Re-enchanting podcast, Rory Stewart talks with Jonathan Aitken about politics, prison reform, and how Stewart's own faith informs his vocation to public life and service.
***
24 December 2023 The Mail on Sunday 'Nearly 25 years after I was released from jail, I've decided to go back behind bars on Christmas'
30 November 2023 Jonathan wrote an obituary piece for The Daily Mail on Henry Kissinger in READ HERE ONLINE OR CLICK HERE TO READ PDF
Friday 15 December Jonathan talks to Lee Anderson on GB News Watch from 8:10
THOSE WITH LONG MEMORIES....SEE JONATHAN'S LETTER TO THE TIMES 14 NOVEMBER 2023
JONATHAN GAVE A FASCINATING INTERVIEW TO MATT CHORLEY AT TIMES RADIO HERE: https://shows.acast.com/timesredbox/episodes/jonathan-aitken-ruin-and-redemption
COMING UP NEXT WEEK 21 November 2023
JONATHAN AND GUESTS AND SUPPORT ORMISTON FAMILIES TO GET THE INSIDE STORY:
TICKETS HERE: https://www.ormiston.org/jonathan-aitken-prison-lecture-cambridge/
On the inside: HMP Pentonville’s mental health breakthrough
Tickets: £25
Location:
Buckingham House Lecture Theatre Murray Edwards College Cambridge CB3 0DF
SEPTEMBER 19 PATRICK KIDD: 'TRICKY DICKY'S POP AT REAGAN' APPEARED IN THE TIMES DIARY
SEPTEMBER 13 JONATHAN SPOKE TO THE RICHARD NIXON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY IN YORBA LINDA TO READ THE SPEECH PLEASE CLICK HERE New Nixon Stories and Reflections from the British Biographer of the 37th President
Photograph by Graham Guy Barratt (c)
Sunday 3 September Jonathan appeared on Sky News for the new 'Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips:
On August 5 Jonathan commends The Times on their splendid reporting on The Ashes
28 July in "Lives Remembered' The Times Jonathan remembers Lady Jane Williams mother of the Archbishop of Canterbury and longest surviving secretary to Winston Churchill
14 August Pride: self-obsessed isolation for Seen & Unseen
Jonathan Aitken In the sixth of a series on the Seven Deadly Sins, Jonathan Aitken identifies Pride as egotism with a capital E and the cause of his own royal flush of crises.
Saturday 10 June Jonathan gave this speech at the Saïd Foundation Annual Lunch
BEHIND BARS 21 March 2023 Harry Goodwin interviews Jonathan: I was banged up in the worst prison in the UK… Reggie Kray sent me a note on my first day inside – it was terrifying
14 March 2023 Jonathan wrote a piece on John Newton for Seen & Unseen a new website that provides Christian perspectives on just about anything as part of +Graham Tomlin's new Centre for Cultural Witness launching on Tuesday 28 April
17 February 2023 Ben Virgo invited Jonathan to take part in a Podcast for Christian Heritage London -watch here
***
2022
Monday 28 November Matt Hancock on I'm A Celebrity: Has the controversial MP been forgiven? asks Katie Razzall Culture Editor of BBC
(Staff pride – the Rev Jonathan Aitken and CM Neil Fraser)
15 November 2022 Letters to The Editor of The Times Alan Rusbridger and Jonathan Aitken ask for accountability at Christ Church
November 2022 The Late Elizabeth Harris appears on Sky Arts in Adrian Sibley's documentary: 'The Ghost of Richard Harris' along with Jonathan's stepsons Damian, Jared and Jamie Harris
1 October 2022 Jonathan wrote an article in Saturday's Credo column in The Times about his inspirational friend Mick May who died after a long battle with cancer.
25 September 2022 Jonathan appeared on Mark Dolan Tonight talking about his life
30 AUGUST 2022 JONATHAN TURNED 80! READ HIS REMARKS THAT HE MADE HERE AT HIS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
It is with great sadness to announce the passing of Jonathan's wife Elizabeth Harris who died aged 85 peacefully at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on Good Friday. Jonathan and the Harris family have been overwhelmed with gratitude for all the letters, emails and messages of condolences. Thank you.
Elizabeth's funeral was held at St Matthew's Westminster on Tuesday 3 May two days after what would have been her 86th Birthday. For the beautiful Order of Service please click on the photograph:
A wonderful Obituary appeared in The Times thanks to Valerie Grove and Damian Arnold
And The Telegraph
Some advice for Boris Becker....."First Day is the Worst Day of your Life" GBNews
JONATHAN GAVE THE OLD ETONIAN LECTURE THIS YEAR AT THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY ON TUESDAY APRIL 26 2022
The Lecture, accompanied by eighty nine slides, was a fascinating historical insight into Eton during the period 1956-1961.
Talking about his contemporaries, teachers and how Eton prepared him for his own rollercoaster life can be read here.
Christ Church and Dean Martyn Percy and the piecing together of the true story. More coming soon...
Jonathan's letter to The Tablet 19 February 2022
Angela Tibury's excellent article in The Tablet 5 February 2022
Daily Mail Friday February 22 2022
Letter to The Times 8 February 2022
Letter to The Times December 18 2021
FOR MORE BACKGROUND ON THE FOUR YEAR SAGA OF CHRIST CHURCH PLEASE GO TO
7 December 2021 Jonathan remembers the kindness of Sir Frank Williams in The Times
November 21 2021 Jonathan took part in celebrations to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the UAE at NYU Abu Dhabi. Thanks to Oxford Cyber Academy for organising this Conference. Read about the fascinating history and the talk Jonathan gave on the founding of the UAE here.
22 October 2021 Jonathan's new book written with Edward Smyth Doing Time: A Spiritual Survival Guide for prisoners and prisoners families has been published by Lion Hudson and can be bought on Amazon and other bookshops
28 SEPTEMBER 2021. EXCLUSIVE: "CARRY ON CHRIST CHURCH...HIGH PANIC AT LOW TABLE" FOR THE CRITIC MAGAZINE READ HERE
Former Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken, 78, is brought back from the brink of death by a 'medical miracle' after induced coma
Jonathan and Dan Brown talked to Ben Luke about art in prisons as part of Healing Arts London Artists' House Calls
Sunday March 14 Listen to Jonathan was interviewed as part of Radio 4's Sunday programme this Sunday 7.10- 8am with Edward Stourton LISTEN HERE
St Martin's Challenge- Jonathan joins us to talk about his work as a chaplain in HMP Pentonville amid the COVID pandemic. Shout outs to Tempus Novo and Prison Fellowship of England and Wales. - LISTEN TO PODCAST HERE
Friday 5 March The Tablet published this week Jonathan's excellent article:
Light inside: How the pandemic made HMP Pentonville safer, cleaner and more humane
11 February 2021 Letter to The Times in response to the Government's announcement of a 10 year prison sentence for arrivals who do not quarantine from red list countries
2 February Jonathan was invited to be the Priest at Ronald Groves's Funeral a fellow former inmate and gave this address
1 February Letter to The Telegraph
Ex-minister Jonathan Aitken: ‘End long waits for justice’
Defendants are stuck behind bars at Pentonville, says politician-turned-chaplain who served time for perjury
22 January, 2021 — By Calum Fraser
15 January 2021 Letter to The Times
13 January 2021 Jonathan gave a moving address at Lady Margaret Tebbit's funeral at Bury St Edmundsbury Cathedral
***
December 2020 Jonathan had a busy Advent despite carol services being held virtually. Please see Sermons page.
11 October 2020 Jonathan appeared on Songs of Praise for Prisons Week. Watch him talking about life: 'From Prison to the Pulpit' with Pam Rhodes Here
More Christ Church related news:
Tuesday 2 June 2020 The Telegraph Exclusive: Oxford Dean victim of 'abhorrent and wholly unjustified' campaign, faith leaders and academics claim
***
30 May 2020 Sebastian Shakespeare wrote in the Daily Mail Eden Confidential about Jonathan's Covid-19 related heart attack
Jonathan talks about his Great Uncle Lord Beaverbrook in this month's Oldie Magazine "I Once Met"
Elizabeth Harris's brother Lord Ogmore sadly died on 2 May 2020. Jonathan was the Priest and gave this address
Damian read from Elizabeth's wonderful autobiography Love, Honour and Dismay which I cannot recommend enough. Copies can still be found on Amazon and Ebay
Jonathan's letter to The Times on 20 April 2020 in response to Matthew Parris's excellent article about failure
April 17 2020 Read Jonathan's article on his experience of overcoming Covid-19 and dealing with Isolation for UnHerd What Belmarsh taught me about lockdown
3 March 2020 to read the latest on the Christ Church the drama which gets curiouser and curiouser please see page 17 of The Times which you can read here. Here is Jonathan's Letter to The Times
February 29 read Andrew Billen's explosive story about the Christ Church scandal which appeared in Saturday's The Times Magazine
16 February 2020
Jonathan appeared on Radio 3 as a guest of Michael Berkeley on Private Passions. You can hear it here
Tracklist
1 George Frideric Handel Ev'ry Valley (Messiah)
2 Traditional Irish The Garden where the praties grow
3 Benjamin Britten Sammy's bath (The little sweep)
4 Richard Wagner Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (Das Rheingold)
5 Ludwig van Beethoven O welche Lust (Fidelio)
6 Joseph Barnby Psalm 24
7 Arthur Sullivan When I was a lad (HMS Pinafore)
8 George Frideric Handel All we like sheep (Messiah)
Jonathan worked at HMP Pentonville as a prison chaplain every day over Christmas. Patrick Kidd wrote about it for The Spectator
23 December
Jonathan Aitken visits various disparate venues from Brixton Prison to The Old Bailey on a whirlwind of Carol Services this December and writes about it for the Daily Mail: O, Come, All Ye Convicts.....
4 December 2019
Jonathan wrote a letter to The Times "Islamists and rehab"
Jonathan appeared with Jane Wenham-Jones at the Broadstairs Literary Festival
The Isle of Thanet News Full house for Thanet MP turned prisoner then Reverend, Jonathan Aitken
18 October 2019
Jonathan Aitken's complaint to the Charity Commission is covered in this article Financial Times investigation slams Christ Church as “virtually ungovernable”
Related articles: Dons argue that the Percy judgement should stay secret
Former Cabinet minister urges regulator to intervene in Oxford college case
13 October 2019
Inside Time reports on Law Sunday Service with Jonathan Aitken on Sunday 13 October
17 October 2019
7 October 2019
The Northern Echo Jonathan Aitken to preach at service marking the 200th anniversary of HMP Durham
Jonathan was busy during Prisons Week 13-19 October 2019 (please see Sermons page).
18 September 2019 A Letter to The Times 'Broken Prison System and rehabilitation'
READ ALL ABOUT JONATHAN'S FIRST MASS AT BOTH ST MATTHEW'S WESTMINSTER AND HMP PENTONVILLE IN PATRICK KIDD'S ARTICLE FOR THE TIMES
YOU CAN READ THE SERMON HE PREACHED TO THE PRISONERS AT HMP PENTONVILLE HERE
JONATHAN WAS ORDAINED TO THE PRIESTHOOD ON SUNDAY 30 JUNE 2019 AT ST MARY'S STOKE NEWINGTON BY BISHOP SARAH MULLALLY. JONATHAN WILL BE PREACHING HIS FIRST MASS AT ST MATTHEW'S CHURCH WESTMINSTER ON FRIDAY JULY 12 2019
Apologies for the lack of updates on the website but Jonathan has been very busy of late. You may have seen him appear recently in the excellent five part BBC Margaret Thatcher documentary available on the BBC iPlayer available for the next 11 months Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
In future I will be posting Jonathan's sermons on the sermons page
June 8 2019
Get Prisoners to tidy up churchyards writes Jonathan in The Times
27 April 2019
2 April 2019
Jonathan talks to Alan Rusbridger about life in prison on BBC Radio 4's One to One
24 March 2019
Jonathan went back to Eton to preach. You can read his sermon here
5 February 2019
'Let Margaret Thatcher have her statue!" Jonathan debates on Good Morning Britain on ITV with George Galloway
Jonathan preached at St Matthew's Westminster on Sunday 27 January 2019
Read it HERE
21 December 2018 JONATHAN AITKEN wrote for the Daily Mail: Christmas has never before been such a joyful season in my life. ...
18 December Jonathan gave a sermon at the FCO. You can read it here.
On Sunday 16 December at 10am -11am Jonathan can be heard on BBC Radio Scotland tune in to hear this extensive interview of Jonathan's new life as a Curate and Prison Chaplain.
On Thursday 13 December Jonathan will be addressing New Bridge Carol Service at St George's Hanover Square buy tickets here
On Saturday 8 December Jonathan wrote "Why Politicians Need our Prayers" for The Times Credo Column (click to read)
Jonathan preached at St Matthew's for the First Advent on 2 December 2018. To read his sermon click here
29 November 2018 Inside Time Noel Smith interviewed Jonathan Hope and Second Chances
Jonathan preached at St Matthew's on Sunday 16 September to read his sermon click here
11 November 2018 Jonathan preached at St Matthew's for Remembrance Sunday
Letter to The Times 11 September - let prisoners have mobile phones in their cells
To read Jonathan's latest sermon on 26 August at St Matthew's click here
1 July 2018 Jonathan's first Sermon at St Matthew's to read click here
MORE PRESS AUGUST 2018
Church Times Jails in desperate need of support says Jonathan Aitken
Inside Time A good trip to the Old Bailey By Noel Smith
Radio Times article on Faith behind Bars by Martin Bashir
Jonathan has announced that he is to be ordained at St Paul's Cathedral on June 30 2018 to be a part time non-stipendiary Prison Chaplain
Sunday June 3
The Sunday Times "Jonathan Aitken to be Prison Chaplain" by Laura Pullman
The Sunday Times "I prayed in Jail Sunday" by Laura Pullman
Monday June 5
Charles Moore in Daily Telegraph "Why Aitken is Suitable for work"
The Guardian "Aitken to go back behind bars"
Saturday 9 June
The Daily Mail Monday "Jonathan Aitken to host Ordination Party at Old Bailey"
Weeklies
Tablet
Catholic Herald "From the Ritz to the rectory"
Jonathan will be heard on Radio 5 Live on 29 March on The Emma Barnett Show The Eye of the Storm at 12.30pm
Jonathan will be appearing in Hartley Wintney on Friday 23 March
Jonathan talked to LBC Radio on the topic "Would incentives such as more contact with family tackle violence in prisons" talking about David Gauke's speech on 6 March 2018
Listen Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13YsmFjOIWkYjQij_nat0fkBT2maB4pUs/view
Jonathan speaks at 7:10 minutes in
Letter to The Times on February 17
Jonathan spoke with Alan Rusbridger at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford on Saturday 27 January 2018
3 January 2018 Should criminals be able to avoid jail time by saying sorry?
Jonathan appears on to watch click here: Good Morning Britain
1 January 2018 Letter to The Times
On 3 December Jonathan preached at St Matthew's. Click here for his sermon on Advent.
On 5 October 2017 Jonathan addresses Prison Chaplains from all over London at Prison Chaplain's Conference please click here for his speech
14 SEPTEMBER 2017
Jonathan appears on BBC Breakfast News:
Ahead of the launch of Centre for Social Justice's new publication 'What Happened to the Rehabiltation Revolution' written with John Samuels QC. You can read the full PDF report here.
Also other press related to the report:
Jonathan will be talking to Radio Shropshire this afternoon around 4.45pm today on BBC Radio WM with Paul Franks http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioshropshire
Subscribe to www.UnHerd.com for free and read Jonathan's regular column or click this link for a PDF of his latest article:
"He’s trying, but China’s Church is too big for Xi to suppress"
Jonathan Aitken writes for new website UnHerd
3 August 2017 The fourth emergency service. Faith communities in the Grenfell frontline
The soaring suicide and self-harming rates in our prisons are reaching crisis levels. Last week’s National Audit Office report confirmed this: in 2016 there were a record 120 self-inflicted prison deaths – a doubling of the number within four years – and more than 40,000 self-harm incidents in English and Welsh prisons. Overstretched staff are simply unable to cope with the extra suicide prevention measures that are needed.
10 June 2017 Jonathan remembers Monterey Pop Festival and 1967
8 June 2017 Jonathan remembers Adnan Khashoggi
9 April 2017 Kazakh Ambassador Erlan Idrissov hands over medal to British writer Jonathan Aitken
Все права защищены. Используйте активную ссылку на inform.kz http://www.kazinform.kz/en/kazakh-ambassador-erlan-idrissov-hands-over-medal-to-british-writer-jonathan-aitken_a3015394
19 February 2017 SKY NEWS Jonathan reacts to the news about instant pay rise for prison guards...
The announcement came as ex-prisoner and former cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken blamed "swingeing and unjustified" cuts for the prisons crisis.
He praised Ms Truss for facing up to the "grim realities" of the situation after predecessors Michael Gove, Chris Grayling and Ken Clarke "agreed to" cuts that they "should never have allowed".
Mr Aitken, who was jailed for perjury in 1999, told BBC Radio 4: "There are no votes in prisons or prisoners' rights or prison welfare so, of course, cuts are easy to make there without causing voter disquiet.
"We need a bit of a re-think about how public expenditure priorities are decided and we're not getting that right at the moment."
14 February 2017 Ruth Gledhill Editor of Christian Today reports: Jonathan Aitken, the former Conservative Cabinet minister who served time in jail for perjury, has accused the prison service of being guilty of 'institutional secularism'.
"We need a bit of a re-think about how public expenditure priorities are decided and we’re not getting that right at the moment".
February 2017 click here to read Second chances Retired prison officers offer new time opportunities for prisoners who want change Inside Time February 2017
January 20 2017 Donald Trump will be our No 1 ally - and Brexit will be our bond appeared in The Daily Mail click here for link
3pm Sunday January 8 2017 Jonathan preached at the Dutch Church, 7 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA (Please click Next Appearances for other events where Jonathan is speaking in 2017). To read his sermon please click here.
Wednesday 14 December The Personality of President Nazarbayev appeared in The Astana Times
Sunday 11 December Jonathan preached at HTB Courtfield Gardens for Advent 3 Matthew 11:2-11. To read his sermon click here.
Thursday 24 November Fine Cell Work invited Jonathan to talk at their event celebrating the needlework and embroidery of prisoners at Crossway House, Suffolk. The evening raised £26,000. The prisoners' work is beautiful and there is a January sale on right now. Thank you to Miranda and William Kendall, April Birtwistle and Victoria Gillies and all the other people involved in this charity. Click here for Fine Cell Work website to buy and for more information. The money helps the prisoners enormously not only in a monetary sense but also a sense of worth upon release.
Wednesday November 23 Ambassador Farage may not be so daft an idea appeared in The Daily Mail
Friday 4 November Jonathan write a letter to The Times
Saturday 8 October Jonathan gave a talk in Uganda at the National Prayer Breakfast, Kampala, on the subject "You will know them by their fruits" Matthew 7 v. 15-20
Sunday 25 September Jonathan gave talks to Alpha at Lee Hall Wolfson College Cambridge followed by another at Kingsgate Community Church Peterborough
Sunday 10 July Jonathan returned to Dublin for a new exhibition opening at the Little Museum of Dublin about Brendan Bracken 'Churchill and the Irishman' see how the week turned out here
On Thursday 19 May Jonathan will be returning to his ancestral roots and will speak at the Canadian National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa.
Jonathan delivered a fascinating sermon on the Walk to Emmaus on Sunday April 3 at HTB Courtfield Gardens. For a transcription of it here please click here
On December 21 Jonathan gave a lecture at The Nixon Library watch it here & click here for a full transcript of the speech:
12 December 2015
The Times and Inside Time featured a collaborative article written by Jonathan and Denis MacShane Gove must bang judges’ heads together
6 December 2015
Read Jonathan's Advent sermon given to St Jude's (Luke 3:1-6)
26 November 2015
22 November 2015
Sermon given to St Dionis Matthew 25: 31-46
18 October 2015
Read Jonathan's article on the Prime Minister's plans for Prison Reform in The Sunday Times
Sunday 6 September 2015
St Augustine's Church, Queensgate, London SW7
Click here to read Jonathan's Sermon (Mark 7: Verses 24 - end)
Sunday 2 August 2015
'What Lord Sewel can learn from his downfall' in Sunday Telegraph
19 July 2015
Jonathan's sermon at St Matthews can by click on this link
11 July 2015
The Spectator Book Review
The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible A.N. Wilson
Has A.N. Wilson reached the last port of call on the tempestuous sea of faith?
14 June 2015
I lost it all .....
Jonathan appears in the Telegraph's Money Section
June 2015
A part of his story ....
Alan Rusbridger's life in the headlines please click here for the short film:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2015/jun/10/alan-rusbridger-life-in-the-headlines-video
Read Jonathan Aitken's review of Eliza Filby's God and Mrs Thatcher: The Fight For Britain's Soul Daily Mail 7 May 2015
June's Inside Time The Mentors are coming! In conjuction with CFEO here is Jonathan's report on the evening 'CFEO -A Call to Action' at St Augustine's Church to recruit mentors on Monday May 11 2015. If you are interested in becoming a Mentor please contact Sophie Giles on Sophie.Giles@williamwilberforcetrust.org
To read the report please click:
Inside Time - The Mentors are coming!
19 May 2015 Jonathan wrote in the International New York Times about Kazakstan's Presidential Election and Nursultan Nazarbayev's victory. Please click for the copy scanned below:
A vote for stability and continuinty at a time for formidable challenges Part 1
On Sunday 10 May 2015 Jonathan gave a Sermon for St Jude's Church, Courtfield Gardens SW7 based on reading John 15: 9-17
The New Parliament - What Now Should We Pray For? Please click HERE for transcribe
Nazarbayev and Kazakh election: An interview with Nazarbayev biographer by James Willsher April 1 2015 in the Times of Central Asia
To read the interview with Jonathan Aitken please click here
Former Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitken backs ex-inmate's concept to open car wash staffed by prisoners at Hollesley Bay
26 February 2015 by Colin Adwent East Anglian Daily Times click here
Jonathan Aitken opened Gloucestershire’s new £12.4 million Custody Suite at the invitation of the County’s Police Commissioner Martin Surl on January 14 2015.
For his speech click here
For media reporting please click:
Jonathan Aitken told Good Morning Britain that convicted rapist Ched Evans should be free to return to professional football on 6 January 2015. Click here to watch it:
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-01-06/former-minister-aitken-says-evans-should-be-play-again/
The Sunday People published Sunday 14 December 2014
Mail on Sunday 30 November 2014
Some advice to Andrew Mitchell from someone who's been there .....
Daily Mail 11 November 2014
Caught on tape, the day Ronald Reagan turned on the charm to avoid a Maggie handbagging: Secret White House tape recordings reveal his apology to furious Thatcher over America’s 1983 invasion of Grenada
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2829382/Caught-tape-day-Ronald-Reagan-turned-charm-avoid-Maggie-handbagging-Secret-White-House-tape-recordings-reveal-apology-furious-Thatcher-America-s-1983-invasion-Grenada.html#ixzz3Il0gVQre
3 November 2014
Please click here for article in November's issue of Standpoint Magazine about prison reform:
How to Fix Britain's Prison System
Jonathan's letter to the Guardian 23 October 2014
click here:
Jonathan is now on the road to full recovery. He will be making many appearances in the next few months so please check out Future Speaking Engagments Page.
There are various things in the pipeline and even rumours such as what appeared on the front page of the Sunday Times on September 7.
Daily Mail 22 July 2014
Jonathan wishes to thank everyone for their messages of support and prayers and hopes to be back on his feet for September
(click here for article that appeared in Diary section of Daily Mail on 22 July 2014:)
Evening Standard 8th July 2014
Jonathan writes about how Rolf Harris and Andy Coulson can make prison a good experience if they can accept their guilt and act positively :
(click on link below:)
The best way to do time for two different crimes
Daily Telegraph Saturday July 5 2014
Jonathan wrote an open letter to Andy Coulson:
(click on link below:)
Planet prison is full of surprises and a lot of them are pleasant
Daily Mail Saturday June 28 2014
How an NHS surgeon's genius and prayers from Wormwood Scrubs saved my wife from death :
(click on link below:)
How an NHS surgeon's genius and prayers from Wormwood Scrubs saved my wife from death
Good Morning Britain:
Jonathan appeared on the morning of 21st May 2014
Click on this link to watch it:
Hunt for two prisoners continues this morning
The One Show
Jonathan will be appearing on the One Show at 7pm on BBC1 on Tuesday May 13th talking about 'Amazing Grace'.
Click on the link to purchase the book through Amazon:
John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace, Continuum, 2007
Meaningful Mentoring
On April 22nd, 2014 Jonathan wrote a report for The Centre for Social Justice called 'Meaningful Mentoring'.
Click on the link to read it:
J1993_Meaningful_Mentoring_WEB_3