
Liturgy of the Ordinary
Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
by Tish Harrison Warren
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Pub Date Dec 04 2016 | Archive Date Mar 21 2017
InterVarsity Press | IVP Books
Description
Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices and habits that form us. Tish Harrison Warren devotes each chapter to one event of a typical day—from making the bed, to brushing her teeth, to losing her keys—and relates each activity to a spiritual practice. Drawing from the diversity of her life as a campus minister, Anglican priest, friend, wife, and mother, Warren introduces readers to the holiness found in the everyday.
Advance Praise
"Sometimes the difference between drudgery and epiphany is just
seeing things from the right angle, a frame that reframes everything,
even the mundane. This marvelous little book is that certain slant of
light that illuminates the everyday as an arena of sanctification, where
the Spirit makes us holy in ways we might miss. You don't need more to
do in a day, Warren shows. Instead, reframe the everyday as an extension
of worship, and folding the laundry, washing dishes, and even commuting
become habitations of the Spirit."
—James K. A. Smith, author of Desiring the Kingdom and You Are What You Love
"With the writer's (and indeed the poet's) gift of slowing down and
paying the best kind of attention, Tish Harrison Warren connects the
moments of an ordinary day with the extraordinary pattern of classical
Christian worship. . . . With its laugh-out-loud moments and moving
descriptions of a life lived imperfectly but well, this is a great gift
of a book—an ordinary book, in one way, but also not ordinary at all."
—Andy Crouch, from the foreword
"This beautiful book will brush the dust from your dingy days and
reveal the extraordinary that is to be found in the ordinary. No mundane
daily task will be the same once these pages open your eyes to how the
work of your hands reflects the ways of the Creator and the rhythms of
eternity."
—Karen Swallow Prior, author of Booked and Fierce Convictions
"If Christianity is to retain its witness in our frenetic and
fragmented age, it must take root not only in the thoughts and emotions
but also in the daily lives and even bodies of those who call Christ
Lord. Tish Harrison Warren has beautifully 'enfleshed' the concepts and
doctrines of our faith into quotidian moments, showing how every hour of
each day can become an occasion of grace and renewal. If you want to
know how faith matters amid messy kitchens, unfinished manuscripts,
marital spats, and unmade beds, Liturgy of the Ordinary will train your eyes to see holy beauty all around."
—Katelyn Beaty, print managing editor, Christianity Today
"In this moment in culture, when much feels complicated and shallow,
Tish Harrison Warren offers a beautiful and life-giving narrative: a way
toward the ordinary sacred. This book is gentle in its simplicity and
rich in wisdom. I wish I had read it a decade ago."
—Micha Boyett, author of Found
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780830846238 |
PRICE | $16.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 192 |
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