Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Waiting with Mary: “Being” Rather Than “Doing”

December 21, 2011

Before Leah and I moved to Durham to start Rutba House in the summer of 2003, we spent a long weekend at Mary’s House Catholic Worker, a hospitality house for homeless families in Birmingham, Alabama. We ...

Waiting For St. Benedict: Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

October 24, 2011

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A couple of weeks ago, the Occupy Wall Street protests looked like a typical gathering of disgruntled young people, not unlike protests outside WTO or World Bank gatherings over the past decade. But as this...

Choose Life for Troy Davis

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

September 21, 2011

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Despite 650, 000 signatures, a letter from over 50 members of the US Congress, and a personal plea from former Georgia governor and US President Jimmy Carter, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles...

The Next American Revival

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

July 21, 2011

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When the gospel connects with a person’s deep need, conversion happens. Every evangelical knows this. When the gospel connects with society’s deep need, revival happens. Sometimes we forget this. But the H...

Is Revivalist Spirituality Still Relevant Today?

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

June 22, 2011

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I made my first trip to the Greenbelt Festival in the UK last summer. After years of hearing about how there’s nothing like it in the U.S., I arrived at the Cheltenham Racecourse where some 20, 000 people ha...

Turning Again: Tax Day

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

April 16, 2011

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This year, Tax Day (April 15) happened to be the Friday before Good Friday. For those of us on the Lenten journey, this puts the question of whether we should pay taxes to the Empire right in the context wh...

Let Us Pray. . .Together

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

February 20, 2011

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A few years ago, a bunch of activist-types and a bunch of prayer-warriors got together to create a prayer book with the goal of bringing together the bible and the newspaper. We were all convinced that praye...

Faith Ignites Struggle for Justice, Now as in Past

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

February 11, 2011

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In public schools and community centers across the United States, Black History Month means that the busts of presidents on January’s bulletin boards have been replaced by images of Frederick Douglass and Ha...