Morton, John
John was born in Seaside, Oregon, but was raised in an uppermiddle class neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. He spent twelve years participating in house churches among the ‘dangerous classes’ in Los Angeles, Denver, and Washington D.C. before departing in 1991 to do mission work in developing nations. He earned his theology degree from Fuller Seminary in 1981. A side job of teaching English has provided the means to take part in home fellowships around the globe, which continues to this day. He married Katarzyna Dajer in 2004, settling in Poland for eight months a year. Upon returning to America he still does street preaching against nuclear weapons, avarice, environmental exploitation, and the church’s subservience to concentrated corporate/political power, personally rebuking megachurch pastors. Heavily influenced by Bonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, C.S. Lewis, and Gibbon he remains polemical, citing the prophets (a better Hebrew translation would be intellectual dissidents) and the early church as his principal examples.