“In this alternative economy of the true bread of life, we are turned inside out so that we are no longer people marked by scarcity, jockeying for our own good, but are new people, truly nourished, and therefore able to… — 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
