The Story

Not a Church.
A Conversation.

Radical Sunday exists because faith deserves better than bumper stickers and Sunday morning routines. It deserves depth. It deserves honesty. And it deserves a space where thinking and believing are not treated as opposites.

Founder & Author

Jonathan Barlow

Jonathan Barlow did not set out to build a brand. He set out to make sense of his own faith — and in the process, found that a lot of other people were asking the same questions he was.

Based in Detroit, Michigan, Jonathan is an author, speaker, and thinker whose work sits at the intersection of theology, leadership, and lived experience. He founded Radical Sunday as an answer to a simple observation: the people who think the hardest about life are often the ones who feel the most alone in their faith.

His writing is not prescriptive. It is not a formula for a better life in thirty days. It is an invitation to sit with difficult questions long enough to find your own answers — and the conviction that those answers are worth the discomfort of looking.

When he is not writing, Jonathan is building, mentoring, and having conversations that matter with people who are tired of ones that do not.

How It Started

The Origin of Radical Sunday

The name came from a Sunday. Not a dramatic one — just a quiet morning where it became clear that the gap between what faith looked like in public and what it felt like in private was too wide to keep ignoring.

Radical, in its original meaning, refers to the root. The foundation. The thing everything else grows from. And Sunday — not as a day of obligation, but as a marker. A moment to pause, reflect, and decide what the next week will be built on.

Radical Sunday started as a personal practice: one morning a week dedicated to asking better questions. It became a notebook. Then a book. Then a conversation that kept growing because, it turns out, a lot of people were looking for the same thing — faith content that does not insult their intelligence or ignore their doubts.

Today, Radical Sunday is a brand, a library, and a community. But at its core, it is still that same thing: a commitment to going back to the root and building from there.

What We Believe