Rev. Art J. Gordon is a fourth generation pastor from Warner Robins, Georgia. After graduating from Savannah State University with a B.A in History, he moved to Boston to attend the Boston University School of Theology where he received his Master of Divinity Degree in 2016. While a student at the School of Theology, he was the Vice President of the Student Association, a Worship Intern in Marsh Chapel, and received the Donald A. Well Prize for Preaching. In 2017, he was called to lead St. John Missionary Baptist Church in the Roxbury neighborhood, as the youngest elected pastor in the church's history. Under his leadership he has overseen a community scholarship fund and the church was both a COVID testing site as well as vaccine site during the pandemic. Rev. Gordon has been a guest preacher at the Marsh Chapel of Boston University and the Memorial Church of Harvard University.

Passionate about religion and politics, Rev. Gordon was engaged in local politics and several civic engagement opportunities across Boston. He served on Senator Ed Markey's 2020 re-election campaign and also worked for two years as the Senior Advisor to Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-7). He is a 2021 New Leaders Council Fellow, a Seminarian Fellow for Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, and is currently a Doctor of Ministry student focusing on Transformational Leadership at Boston University. He has served on several local boards, received several community based awards, and is a member of the Boston Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He is married to Portsha Franklin-Gordon and father to Jaxyn P. Gordon.

Rev. Gordon believes deeply in the power of faith and politics to create avenues of systemic change in urban communities across Greater Boston.