Liturgy of the Ordinary
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Christianity Today Book of the Year
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Discover the Holiness of Your Everyday
What if the overlooked routines of your day became sacred invitations? Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren is a gentle reminder that God's presence is not just in the extraordinary but in the midst of the ordinary. Through the lens of her own daily life, Warren invites you to find holiness in the mundane and recognize how seemingly small, daily habits shape your spiritual growth.
Framed around one typical day, this book explores life through the lens of liturgy-small practices and habits that form us. In each chapter, Warren considers a common daily experience like making the bed, brushing her teeth, and losing her keys. Drawing from the diversity of her life as a campus minister, Anglican priest, friend, wife, and mother, Warren opens up a practical theology of theeveryday.
Key Features:
- Transform the Everyday: Learn simple habits that foster a deeper awareness of the sacred in everyday routines.
- Discussion and Reflection: Explorethought-provoking questions and practices designed for personal growth and group engagement.
- Connection to Worship: Discover activities that relate both to spiritual practices as well as to an aspect of Sunday worship.
"Warren shows readers how to turn the mundane and often frustrating aspects of daily life into a reflection on the sacred. Working her way through a typical day-her morning routine, busywork such as checking email, fights with her spouse-Warren seamlessly blends together lived realities with theological reflections. Her writing is lyrical and often humorous, and she has a gift for making theological concepts seem easy to understand and (perhaps most importantly) easy to live. ... But she reminds readers that while they 'can get drunk on talk of justification, ecclesiology, pneumatology, Christology, and eschatology... these big ideas are borne out-lived, believed, and enfleshed-in the small moments of our day, in the places, seasons, homes, and communities that compose our lives.'" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review, December 2019
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Tish Harrison Warren is a weekly contributing newsletter writer for the New York Times and writes a monthly column for Christianity Today. She is a writer-in-residence at Resurrection Anglican Church in Austin, a priest in the Anglican Church in North America, and previously served in campus ministry with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the author of Prayer in the Night.
Andy Crouch (MDiv, Boston University School of Theology) is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, an organization that works as a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship, and he is the author of The Tech-Wise Family, Strong and Weak, Playing God, and Culture Making. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016.
Content
Foreword by Andy Crouch 1. Waking: Baptism and Learning to Be Beloved 2. Making the Bed: Liturgy, Ritual, and What Forms a Life 3. Brushing Teeth: Standing, Kneeling, Bowing, and Living in a Body 4. Losing Keys: Confession andthe Truth about Ourselves 5. Eating Leftovers: Word, Sacrament, and Overlooked Nourishment 6. Fighting with My Husband: Passing the Peace and the Everyday Work of Shalom 7. Checking Email: Blessing and Sending 8. Sitting in Traffic: Liturgical Time and an Unhurried God 9. Calling a Friend: Congregation and Community 10. Drinking Tea: Sanctuary and Savoring 11. Sleeping: Sabbath, Rest, and the Work of God Acknowledgments Discussion Questions and Practices Notes
