“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 gospel isn’t only that the Word was made flesh in Jesus, but also that the eternal… — 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
