Tish Harrison Warren

“The church has a reputation for being antipleasure. Many characterize Christians in general the way H. L. Mencken wryly described Puritans: people…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“We do not know this Messiah solely through the red letters in the gospel texts. We know him in his fullness because…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“Together as a church we are practicing, learning the strokes that teach us to live our lives.”

— Tish Harrison Warren

“We have everyday habits—formative practices—that constitute daily liturgies. By reaching for my smartphone every morning, I had developed a ritual that trained…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“Annie Dillard famously writes, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”6 I came across Dillard’s words…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“Alfred Hitchcock said movies are “life with the dull bits cut out.”5 Car chases and first kisses, interesting plot lines and good…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“We disdain limits. Wendell Berry warned, “It is easy . . . to imagine that the next great division of the world…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“In Jewish culture, days begin in the evening with the setting of the sun. (We see this in Genesis 1 with the…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“And in the absence of control, feeling stuck and stressed, those parts of me that I prefer to keep hidden were momentarily…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“Without realizing it, I had slowly built a habit: a steady resistance to and dread of boredom.”

— Tish Harrison Warren

“But here's the thing: pretty good people do not need Jesus. He came for the lost. He came for the broken. In…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“In his brief theology of sleep, Scottish pastor John Baillie writes that in Christ, we “wake up better men than when we…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“In the Christian faith it’s almost a philosophical principle that the universal is known through the particular and the abstract through the…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“Theologian Stanley Hauerwas argues that to truly learn a story, we can’t just hear it. We must also act it out. In…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“The crucible of our formation is in the monotony of our daily routines.”

— Tish Harrison Warren

“The habit of praying before my meal trains me in a way of being-in-the-world. It reminds me that my personal experience is…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“Repentance is not usually a moment wrought in high drama. It is the steady drumbeat of a life in Christ and, therefore,…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“There are a few very goods meals I remember and there are a few truly terrible meals I remember. But most of…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“We grow in holiness in the honing of our specific vocation. We can't be holy in the abstract. Instead we become a…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“Wendell Berry warned, “It is easy . . . to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“If I were a lioness, I would snarl. As it is, I brood.”

— Tish Harrison Warren

“Rich Mullins, one of my favorite writers and musicians, said that when he was a kid he’d walk down the church aisle…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“No matter how much I love or fear something, ultimately my human need for rest kicks in. Even when my kids are…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“A fascinating and somewhat disturbing study out of the University of Virginia showed that, given the choice, many preferred undergoing electric shock…

— Tish Harrison Warren

“We are born hungry and completely dependent on others to meet our needs. In this way the act of eating reorients us…

— Tish Harrison Warren