Prayer in the Night – For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

Tish Harrison Warren is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, which was Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year. She is a weekly contributing newsletter writer for the New York Times and writes a monthly column for Christianity Today. She has worked in ministry settings for over a decade as a campus minister with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries and as the writer-in-residence at Church of the Ascension in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine, The Point, and elsewhere.

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