Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove has followed Jesus from a rural Southern Baptist church to Iraq in a time of war to a Christian community of hospitality in an urban neighborhood. Excited by ways that Christian hope is taking concrete form, Wilson-Hartgrove describes a new monastic movement in America that is witnessing to a world at war that another way is possible. Jonathan is a graduate of Eastern University and Duke Divinity School. An Associate Minister at the historically black St. Johns Baptist Church, he speaks and writes frequently about Christian hospitality, peacemaking, and discipleship and is actively involved in peacemaking and reconciliation efforts in Durham, NC. The Rutba House, where Jonathan lives with his wife Leah, their son JaiMichael, and other friends in a new monastic community that prays, eats, and lives together, welcoming the homeless to join them as brothers and sisters. Jonathan directs the School for Conversion, which offers introductory seminars at new monastic communities around the country and study circles on Christian practices in Durham, NC. Jonathan is the author of Free to Be Bound (NavPress), New Monasticism (Baker), and Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers (IVP), with Shane Claiborne.