ECPA Christian Book of the Year; Christianity Today Book of the Year
An Honest, Prayerful Approach to the Difficulty of Ordinary Life
How can we trust God in the dark?
Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, explores themes of human vulnerability, suffering, and God’s seeming absence. When she navigated a time of doubt and loss, the prayer was grounding for her. She writes that practices of prayer ‘gave words to my anxiety and grief and allowed me to reencounter the doctrines of the church not as tidy little antidotes for pain, but as a light in darkness, as good news.’
In Prayer in the Night, you’ll find:
– An exploration of the real struggles of everyday life, framed around a nighttime prayer of Compline
– Discussion questions to jumpstart group conversations, and
– Practices that offer practical, achievable ways to put Tish’s wisdom into action.Where do you find comfort when you lie awake worrying or weeping in the night? This book offers a prayerful and frank approach to the difficulties in our ordinary lives at work, at home, and in a world filled with uncertainty.
İçerik tablosu
Author’s Note
Part One: Praying in the Dark
Prologue
1. Finding Compline: Nightfall
2. Keep Watch, Dear Lord: Pain and Presence
Part Two: The Way of the Vulnerable
3. Those Who Weep: Lament
4. Those Who Watch: Attention
5. Those Who Work: Restoration
Part Three: A Taxonomy of Vulnerability
6. Give Your Angels Charge over Those Who Sleep: Cosmos and Commonplace
7. Tend the Sick, Lord Christ: Embodiment
8. Give Rest to the Weary: Weakness and Silence
9. Bless the Dying: Ashes
10. Soothe the Suffering: Comfort
11. Pity the Afflicted: Relentlessness and Revelation
12. Shield the Joyous: Gratitude and Indifference
Part Four: Culmination
13. And All for Your Love’s Sake: Dawn
Acknowledgments
Discussion Questions and Suggested Practices
Notes
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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 Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship at Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the author of Prayer in the Night.
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