“For the Christian tradition, the heart’s true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both, Christian wisdom about stability points us toward the true peace that is possible when our spirits are stilled… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
“Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
“For the Christian tradition, the heart’s true home is a life rooted in the love of God. Like Lao-tzu and Dorothy both, Christian wisdom… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
“We learn to dwell with God by learning the practices of hospitality, listening, forgiveness, and reconciliation—the daily tasks of life with other people. Stability… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
“As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share
“it would seem that these super-religious ascetics would be extremely so. But the witness of everyone who visited them for counsel was the opposite.… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A good sermon has its place. But nothing is more essential for the life of faith in a community than liturgy that invites us to sing the freedom songs that are sung around the throne of God. Brother Ken… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share
“you don’t have to live in community long to realize that lives which are blessed and instructive are still flawed. The grace of the… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
“To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.” — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
“it would seem that these super-religious ascetics would be extremely so. But the witness of everyone who visited them for counsel was the opposite.… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
