The 'Eating Leftovers' chapter leads to an interesting reflection that apart from occasional delicious feasts that wow our socks off, most of our home cooked meals are pretty basic, unremarkable fare, just like the grace of God appears to be. And denigrating our bodies by our mirrors is like running down a geographical sacred site. Using our bodies for false worship is akin to using consecrated bread and wine in a Wiccan goddess ceremony. She delivers some good, straight talk here. There's a chapter on cleaning teeth and all those other mindless rituals which remind us that we're temples of the Holy Spirit. If you're like me, we're gently encouraged to welcome a bit of quiet sameness, and not to bolt away from mild boredom the moment we get a whiff of it. (That looks very familiar, before my feet hit the floor.) Then she realised that she'd set herself up to expect stimulation and entertainment from the get-go.

In the chapter on bed making, she describes how she used to begin each day checking emails and social media.

She presents fresh ways of thinking of all these moments, and I'll mention just a couple. It's structured in the form of a random, typical day from her calendar, beginning with waking up and ending with going to sleep again. Tish Harrison Warren sets out to explain how there's holiness and dignity in what we easily dismiss as mundane and tedious. Our lives are full of daily, monthly, seasonal and annual repetition. She lives with her husband and three children in the Austin, Texas area.I love its emphasis on rhythms, routines, cycles, rituals, or whatever else we like to call those things we repeat over and over again. She is a founding member of The Pelican Project.

Now, Tish serves as Writer in Residence at Resurrection South Austin. Her articles and essays have appeared in Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine, The Point Magazine, The New York Times, and elsewhere.įor over a decade, Tish has worked in ministry settings as a campus minister with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries, as an associate rector, and with addicts and those in poverty through various churches and non-profit organizations. She is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life ( Christianity Today‘s 2018 Book of the Year) and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep ( Christianity Today‘s 2022 Book of the Year and 2022 ECPA Christian Book of the Year).Ĭurrently, Tish writes a weekly newsletter for The New York Times, and she is a columnist for Christianity Today. Tish Harrison Warren is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America.

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