Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove directs the School for Conversion in Durham, North Carolina. He is author of Strangers at My Door.
Precarious housing
In poor communities like the one where I live and work, evictions are not the exception. They’re the norm.
From Ava DuVernay’s award-winning film to President Obama’s speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, America has remembered Selma this year. We have honored grass-roots leaders, acknowledged the sacrifices of civil rights workers and celebrated the great achievement of the Voting Rights Act. At the same time, we have recalled the hatred and fear of white supremacy in 1960s Alabama. But we may not have looked closely enough at this ugly history.
I understand Resident Aliens as a response to the sort of civil religion that makes people worse than they would be otherwise.
Opening ourselves to others takes time. But love is a prisoner who stays up all night with a sharpened toothbrush, working away at a crack in the wall.
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