Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater Eastern University
Duke Divinity School
Genre Christian devotional literature
Subject New Monasticism
Years active2005-present
SpouseLeah Wilson-Hartgrove
Website
jonathanwilsonhartgrove.com

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a Christian writer and preacher who has graduated both from Eastern University and Duke Divinity School. [1] He associates himself with New Monasticism. [2] Immediately prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he and his wife, Leah, were members of a Christian peacemaking team that traveled to Iraq to communicate their message to Iraqis that not all American Christians were in favour of the coming Iraq War. [3] Wilson-Hartgrove wrote about this experience in his book To Baghdad and Beyond: How I Got Born Again in Babylon. [4] Also in 2003, he became one of the co-founders of Rutba House, a Christian intentional community in Durham, North Carolina's Walltown Neighborhood. [5] In 2006, he founded the School for Conversion, a popular education center committed to "making surprising friendships possible." He taught workshops there alongside his mentor and freedom teacher, Ann Atwater, until her death in 2016. Wilson-Hartgrove has also worked with the Rev. William J. Barber, II to promote public faith for the common good through Moral Mondays and the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. [6]

In his 2008 book Free to Be Bound: Church Beyond the Color Line (NavPress), Wilson-Hartgrove writes about racism and the central importance of racial reconciliation to Christianity. [7] He co-wrote the 2008 book Becoming the Answer to Our Prayer: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals (InterVarsity Press) with fellow New Monastic Shane Claiborne, [8] and published a book on what new monasticism has to say to the church, New Monasticism (Baker Books). They also collaborated on the popular daily prayer guide Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals (Zondervan). [9]

Wilson-Hartgrove wrote God's Economy (Zondervan), which was published in 2009, and a study of the Benedictine practice of stability, The Wisdom of Stability (Paraclete Press), which was published in 2010. He published two books in 2012: The Awakening of Hope: Why We Practice a Common Faith (Zondervan) and The Rule of St. Benedict: A Contemporary Paraphrase (Paraclete Press). [10] In 2013, he wrote a book about his experiences with hospitality called Strangers at My Door: A True Story of Finding Jesus in Unexpected Guests. [11] During Holy Week 2015, Wilson-Hartgrove was one of approximately 400 Christian theologians and leaders who signed a public statement arguing that capital punishment in the United States should cease. [12] He has worked closely with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II in Moral Mondays and the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and is co-author of The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement (Beacon Press). [13] After the 2016 election, Wilson-Hartgrove began teaching about the legacy of slaveholder religion in American Christianity [14] and published Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion (InterVarsity Press). [15] In 2020 he published Revolution of Values (InterVarsity Press), a book that explores how the religious right taught Americans to misread the Bible as an endorsement of Christian nationalism and invites people of faith to re-read Scripture from the perspective of the poor and marginalized whom Jesus blessed. [16]

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  12. ↑ Kaylor, Brian (May 21, 2015). "Former Baylor Law Prof: Jesus' Death Convicts Capital Punishment". The Baptist Standard. Archived from the original on July 22, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Rev. William Barber is building a new 'moral movement' to reach people on race". PBS NewsHour. 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  14. ↑ Race, Religion & Resistance , retrieved 2020-09-16
  15. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove. InterVarsity, $20 cloth (192p) ISBN 978-0-8308-4534-7". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
  16. ↑ "Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove wants white evangelicals to reckon with the Bible". Religion News Service. 2020-01-02. Retrieved 2020-09-16.

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