Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

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  baptistnomad.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/conversations-tho - [Cached Version]
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  The Iraqi doctor treated the injured American for no fee, but asked the group to promise to tell others what had happened to them in Rutbaâ€"that while their country was dropping bombs on his, he offered healing and peace. (Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove tells this story in To Baghdad and Beyond: How I Got Born Again in Babylon [Cascade].)
  
  The Wilson-Hartgroves returned to the United States and started the Christian community in Durham, where Jonathan began study at Duke Divinity School.It's based in a sprawling old house with creaky hardwood floors in a largely black section of the city called Walltown; drug problems and civic neglect give the neighborhood a reputation as a dangerous place.Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove describes Rutba's mission there as one of "hospitality, peace-making and discipleship."He contrasts the community's vision with that of the rural Southern Baptists among whom he grew up: "Jesus doesn't just forgive my sins, he gives a whole new way of lifeâ€"the best way to live."
  
  The community shares meals and daily prayers from the Book of Common Prayer.
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  A bit worried that the Rutba members may be perceived as white do-gooders who intend to "save" the housing projects, Jonathan can only counter that they are committed to being a presence in Walltownâ€""unless the area gentrifies completely."
  
  Wilson-Hartgrove heard a call to this sort of life while at Eastern College outside Philadelphia, where he studied with Tony Campolo."A lot of Tony's students took his ideas more seriously than even he was ready for," he said.A number of Christian communities that include Campolo's students have cropped up in blighted neighborhoods in and around Philadelphia.
  
  The Rutba community has only five members.In addition to the Wilson-Hartgroves, it includes another divinity school student, a 40-year-old man and a high school student whom the community has taken in as a foster child.When I asked whether the neighbors think Rutba is weird, Jonathan said, "You should hear [the high school student] tell his friends where he lives. 'Well, I live in this house, they're Christians, white and black, who aren't really kin to me, but as Christians sort of are . . ."
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  Jonathan also tends a Web site that seeks to connect and support like-minded communities across the country (newmonasticism.org).
  
  He is wary of having such a leading role in the young movement."The Internet is the 'yeast' of the Pharisees about which Jesus warned," he jokes.
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  Wilson-Hartgrove often uses a Dostoevsky quote that Dorothy Day employed in her ministry: "Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."
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  Stock runs Wipf and Stock Publishers, which prints Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove's work.
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  As Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove says, "Whether these communities proliferate or not, this life is good enough in itself."

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  "I'd say we passed up to 20 bombed-out, burned-out vehicles along the way," said Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, 22, a student from Devon, Pa.Four were Iraqi tanks and other military vehicles, he said, but the others appeared to be civilian, including a bus and an ambulance.

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  Activists Confirm Iraqi Hospital Bombed - [Cached Version]
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  "I'd say we passed up to 20 bombed-out, burned-out vehicles along the way," said Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, 22, a student from Devon, Pa.Four were Iraqi tanks and other military vehicles, he said, but the others appeared to be civilian, including a bus and an ambulance.

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  "I#39d say we passed up to 20 bombed-out, burned-out vehicles along the way," said Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, 22, a student from Devon, Pa.Four were Iraqi tanks and other military vehicles, he said, but the others appeared to be civilian, including a bus and an ambulance.
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  As they left Rutbah, said Wilson-Hartgrove#39s wife, Leah, 22, the villagers "said to us, `Please tell them about the hospital.#39"

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  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, a graduate student at Duke Divinity School and conference organizer, initially invited 10 practitioners and 10 academics, but word spread and in the end 60 attended.
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  "For many people, the new monasticism is like a second conversion," says Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.
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  Wilson-Hartgrove and his wife, Leah, were born again in Iraq.
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  Jonathan has told the story in his book To Baghdad and Beyond (Wipf and Stock, 2005).Now in an all-black neighborhood called Walltown in Durham, North Carolina, the couple hopes to recreate the hospitality they received.Only a few blocks from the Duke University campus, Walltown was where the servants of Duke's faculty once lived.Tensions between residents and the university still run high.When the university built a housing development in the once-vacant lot between Walltown and the campus, Walltown residents saw it as the university's attempt to wall off Walltown from the campus.Here Jonathan and Leah are practicing racial reconciliation in a community they have named after their Iraq experience: Rutba House.
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  Though Jonathan and Leah plugged right in, they faced several obstacles as they tried to start a reconciliation community.Their first apartment was not in Walltown, so it marked them as outsiders.Their outreach efforts failed, Leah says.
  
  But after they began renting a house in Walltown, Jonathan was still viewed with suspicion because he was a Duke student.
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  "Jonathan made it his home, so he was just like one of the brothers," St. John's Hayes says.

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  Detour finds war's hidden impact: 3/31/03 - [Cached Version]
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  "I'd say we passed up to 20 bombed-out, burned-out vehicles along the way," said Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, 22, a student from Devon, Pa.Four were Iraqi tanks and other military vehicles, he said, but the others appeared to be civilian, including a bus and an ambulance.

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  [the following is a segment of the article referenced above -- it talks about the work that Jonathan and Leah Wilson-Hartgrove are doing with Rutba house in the Walltown area of Durham. ]
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  "For many people, the new monasticism is like a second conversion," says Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove.
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  Wilson-Hartgrove and his wife, Leah, were born again in Iraq.
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  Jonathan has told the story in his book To Baghdad and Beyond (Wipf and Stock, 2005).Now in an all-black neighborhood called Walltown in Durham, North Carolina, the couple hopes to recreate the hospitality they received.Only a few blocks from the Duke University campus, Walltown was where the servants of Duke's faculty once lived.Tensions between residents and the university still run high.When the university built a housing development in the once-vacant lot between Walltown and the campus, Walltown residents saw it as the university's attempt to wall off Walltown from the campus.Here Jonathan and Leah are practicing racial reconciliation in a community they have named after their Iraq experience: Rutba House.
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  Though Jonathan and Leah plugged right in, they faced several obstacles as they tried to start a reconciliation community.
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  But after they began renting a house in Walltown, Jonathan was still viewed with suspicion because he was a Duke student.
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  "Jonathan made it his home, so he was just like one of the brothers," St. John's Hayes says.

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  Iraq Updates - [Cached Version]
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  way," said Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, 22, a student from Devon, Pa.Fourwere Iraqi tanks and other military vehicles, he said, but the others

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  News Story 1 - [Cached Version]
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  "I'd say we passed up to 20 bombed-out, burned-out vehicles along the way," said Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, 22, a student from Devon, Pa.
  
  "Four were Iraqi tanks and other military vehicles," he said, "but the others appeared to be civilian, including a bus and an ambulance."
  
  Wilson-Hartgrove and his wife, Leah, are seniors at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pa., The Plain Dealer learned.

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  "I'd say we passed up to 20 bombed-out, burned-out vehicles along the way," said Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, 22, a student from Devon, Pennsylvania.Four were Iraqi tanks and other military vehicles, he said, but the others appeared to be civilian, including a bus and an ambulance.

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