Liturgy of the Ordinary – Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

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.

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 and the 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

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