Books

Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer for Ordinary Radicals
With Shane Claiborne (IVP, 2008)
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“Activists Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove show how prayer and action must go together. Their exposition of key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice. Phrases like ‘give us this day our daily bread” and “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors’ take on new meaning when applied to feeding the hungry or advocating for international debt relief. “This book is a small invocation which, once prayed, calls for those who thought they knew the far country to see it for the first time. The far country is not so far as we supposed: it lies vivid and visible betwen our ‘our Fathers’ and our ‘thy will be dones.’”
-Calvin Miller, Beeson Divinity School, author of The Singer and The Path of Celtic Prayer
“This book compels us passionately to ask, in the power of the Holy Spirit, ‘How am I “putting legs on my prayers”?’ This is a tested book and a necessary one!”
-Marva J. Dawn, teaching fellow in Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, and author of Unfettered Hope, Joy in Divine Wisdom and My Soul Waits
New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today’s Church
(Brazos Press, 2008)

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“This is the most informative work to date on its subject. Written in fluid, accessible prose and without pretense, it is also rich in personal and historical insights. The result is a book that is both beguiling and highly credible.”
-Phyllis Tickle, author of The Divine Hours
“This book demonstrates how embracing the lifestyle prescribed by Jesus is a realistic possibility in our present age.”
-Tony Campolo, Eastern University
“Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is things both old and new out of the great Christian storehouse! New monasticism is discovering what is always rediscovered and always bears great life for the gospel.”
-Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, Center for Action and Contemplation
Free to Be Bound: Church Beyond the Color Line
(NavPress, 2008)
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“Free to Be Bound marks Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove as one of the freshest and most important new voices in an American church still deeply divided and confused by the color line.”
-Chris Rice, Center for Reconciliation
“Here is an offering of hope. This is a book that sings truth like old spirituals and lets you sip justice like sweet tea.”
-Shane Claiborne, author of The Irresistible Revolution
“Here’s one of our bright young scholar activists who happens to be a great writer: Free to be Bound is a must read for anyone who has an interest in reconciliation and becoming the church God wants us to be.”
-John Perkins, co-founder of CCDA
Inhabiting the Church: Biblical Wisdom for a New Monasticism
With Jon Stock and Tim Otto (Cascade, 2007)
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“Protestants looking for a richer, thicker, more robust and enchanted way of living into the Christian story should not ignore this invitation into the rhythms and cadences of Benedictine spirituality. Indeed, only one kind of person should avoid this book: the reader who does not wish to be changed.”
-Lauren Winner, author of Girl Meets God and Real Sex
To Baghdad and Beyond: How I Got Born Again in Babylon
(Cascade, 2005)

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“Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove takes us with him on a journey, a trip toward the biblical ‘Babylon,’ helping us to see the truth about ourselves and our culture. Here is a retrieval of truly evangelical Christianity: truthful, prophetic, vibrant, apocalyptic, and by God’s grace, hopeful. What a great trip!”
-Will Willimon, Bishop, the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church
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