Posted by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 1 year 22 weeks ago
I think of Mary, the young woman whose eyes were opened to God’s messenger, whose womb was opened to God in human flesh. The Greeks call her theotokos — the God-bearer.She is the one who welcomed Jesus to make his home in her. Blessed among women, she is a model for us.She’s not just an inspiration for a house of hospitality. She is one.Two years ago, Leah was very pregnant during Advent. Because of high blood pressure, she was on bed rest for most of it. So we waited.We waited for our daughter to come, and we waited for Christmas. We waited with Mary to greet face-to-face the One whom we invite into our lives every time we whisper a prayer.Waiting, we learned, changes your relationship to time. You stop partitioning it into blocks, and you learn to receive it.
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[see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]
Jason and Vonetta Storbakken have extended a gracious and hopeful invitation to public dialogue about reconciliation's challenge for New Monasticism. I'd like to say in public what I've already said to them privately: Thank [...]
Posted by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 4 years 51 weeks ago
Dear Zack,
First of all, let me say thanks. I'm so grateful for the honest questioning of a convert to Christianity who seems to intuit Jesus' radical politics. Your story is such [...]
Posted by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 5 years 5 days ago
Zack Exley over at Revolution in Jesusland has been offering some careful thought and excellent questions about Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw's new book Jesus for President. His questions are well worth reading in depth, [...]
Posted by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 5 years 8 weeks ago
The recent controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright has initiated a new conversation about race in America. It has done so by making clear to white America what almost every black American knows-that 40 years after the civil rights movement, there are still two Americas. More pointedly for Christians, it is manifestly evident that we have two churches. After the integration of schools, the military, and the workplace, the church remains the single most segregated institution in America. [...]
