![]() ![]() Tish Harrison Warren opens up a practical theology of the everyday. ![]() Tish, an Anglican priest, examines the mundane and the struggles that we inevitable encounter on a daily basis to connect our daily liturgy with the Sunday liturgy. 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. Life is viewed through the lens of liturgy-small practices and habits that form us. That’s the take-a-way from Tish Harrison Warren’s book Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life. ![]() But she reminds readers that while they 'can get drunk on talk of justification, ecclesiology, pneumatology, Christology, and eschatology. ![]() Her struggles with coming to terms with the banality of daily life are instantly relatable for example, she frets that she spends most days doing dishes instead of leading a revolution, or changing diapers instead of ministering to the poor in some far-off region of the world. 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. 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. "In her debut, Anglican priest Warren shows readers how to turn the mundane and often frustrating aspects of daily life into a reflection on the sacred. ![]()
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