

Liturgy of the Ordinary
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Tish Harrison Warren
Christianity Today Book of the Year Over 200,000 Copies Sold! 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 the everyday. Key Features: Transform the Everyday: Learn simple habits that foster a deeper awareness of the sacred in everyday routines. Discussion and Reflection: Explore thought-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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Author
Tish Harrison Warren
Pages
184
Publisher
InterVarsity Press
Published Date
2016-11-01
ISBN
0830892206 9780830892204
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"I loved this one. One of the more useful theological reflections I’ve read. <br/><br/>Tish takes us through a day, taking each action or rhythm of daily life and using it as a lens through which to learn something significant about God. As an Anglican priest (ACNA) in the US, she is biased towards liturgical worship, but that’s fine by me as the denominations I’ve chosen for myself as an adult have been Anglican and Catholic! Her voice sounds deeply Anglican yet the reflections I think apply to all Christians. <br/><br/>The back of the book has a discussion guide as well as practice suggestions. <br/><br/>I’ll be going back to this book again and again for the theology, for the gentle nudges to love God and eradicate sin from my life, and for the light thread of Christian self-improvement from an orthodox perspective."
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