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Liturgy of the Ordinary

Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

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Pub Date Dec 04 2016 | Archive Date Mar 21 2017


Description

Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines.

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.

Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines.

Framed around one ordinary day, this book...


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

"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...


Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9780830846238
PRICE $16.00 (USD)
PAGES 192

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