“Many feel that the church (if it’s necessary at all) is primarily intended to serve our individual spiritual needs or to group us together with like-minded people—a kind of holy fraternity. If we believe that church is merely a voluntary… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“The church has a reputation for being antipleasure. Many characterize Christians in general the way H. L. Mencken wryly described Puritans: people with a… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“We do not know this Messiah solely through the red letters in the gospel texts. We know him in his fullness because we are joined to him in his Body, the church. In this joining, we do not lose our individuality or our individual stories of conversion and encounter with Christ. Instead, our own small stories are wrapped up in… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share
“Together as a church we are practicing, learning the strokes that teach us to live our lives.” — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“We have everyday habits—formative practices—that constitute daily liturgies. By reaching for my smartphone every morning, I had developed a ritual that trained me toward a certain end: entertainment and stimulation via technology. Regardless of my professed worldview or particular Christian subculture, my unexamined daily habit was shaping me into a worshiper of glowing screens. Examining my daily liturgy as a liturgy—as something… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share
“Annie Dillard famously writes, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”6 I came across Dillard’s words a couple… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“Alfred Hitchcock said movies are “life with the dull bits cut out.”5 Car chases and first kisses, interesting plot lines and good conversations. We don’t want to watch our lead character going on a walk, stuck in traffic, or brushing his teeth—at least not for long, and not without a good soundtrack. We tend to want a Christian life with… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share
“We disdain limits. Wendell Berry warned, “It is easy . . . to imagine that the next great division of the world will be… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“In Jewish culture, days begin in the evening with the setting of the sun. (We see this in Genesis 1 with the repetition of “And there was evening and there was morning.”) The day begins with rest. We start by settling down and going to sleep. This understanding of time is powerfully reorienting, even jarring, to those of us who… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share
“And in the absence of control, feeling stuck and stressed, those parts of me that I prefer to keep hidden were momentarily unveiled.” — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“Without realizing it, I had slowly built a habit: a steady resistance to and dread of boredom.” — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“But here's the thing: pretty good people do not need Jesus. He came for the lost. He came for the broken. In his love… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“In his brief theology of sleep, Scottish pastor John Baillie writes that in Christ, we “wake up better men than when we went to… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
