“A comprehensive study in the United Kingdom recently revealed that kids learn to rest in the same way they learn to walk, run, and talk.1 Rest takes practice.” — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“My willingness to sacrifice much-needed rest and my prioritizing amusement or work over the basic needs of my body and the people around me (with whom I'm far more likely to be short-tempered after a night of little sleep) reveal… — 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… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“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… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“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… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“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… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“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
“In the Christian faith it’s almost a philosophical principle that the universal is known through the particular and the abstract through the concrete. We… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“Theologian Stanley Hauerwas argues that to truly learn a story, we can’t just hear it. We must also act it out. In our worship—and… — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
“The crucible of our formation is in the monotony of our daily routines.” — Tish Harrison Warren Copy Share Image
