Luminary Interview: Tish Harrison Warren

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In previous episodes of the Rule of Life podcast, listeners tune in to a roundtable discussion as well as audio-snippets from luminary thinkers, pastors, and apprentices who are following Jesus in the every day. Featured in the Sabbath series (season 1) is luminary thinker, Tish Harrison Warren. This episode of the Rule of Life podcast is the interview between John Mark and Tish in its entirety. In this episode they cover the sacredness of ordinary life, the ethical implications of Sabbath, and the importance of Spiritual, bodily habituation.

About Tish

Tish Harrison Warren is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America. She is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life (Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year) and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep (Christianity Today's 2022 Book of the Year and 2022 ECPA Christian Book of the Year).

Currently, Tish writes a weekly newsletter for The New York Times, and she is a columnist for Christianity Today. Her articles and essays have appeared in Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine, The Point Magazine, The New York Times, and elsewhere.

For over a decade, Tish has worked in ministry settings as a campus minister with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries, as an associate rector, and with addicts and those in poverty through various churches and non-profit organizations. Now, Tish serves as Writer in Residence at Resurrection South Austin. She is a founding member of The Pelican Project and a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum. She lives with her husband and three children in the Austin, Texas area.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast by practicing the way.
0:11.4	In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus
0:15.4	and its relevance for the modern era.
0:18.5	This is Season 1, Sabbath.
0:20.7	Sabbath. Hey everyone, John Mark Comer here.
0:40.3	Okay, we are officially done with our four-episode Sabbath podcast that was designed to go along with our four-session Sabbath practice.
0:53.3	And again, thank you to the generosity of the circle who made
0:56.7	all of this possible, as well as to Brian and Bethany Allen for their rich conversation and
1:03.4	to all of our special guests. But before we go silent for a while, and we hope to be back
1:10.0	in mid-January with season two on prayer but
1:14.3	until then we wanted to give you two more offerings throughout my conversations with
1:19.3	Brian and Bethany we have been playing short snippets of long-form interviews
1:24.4	that we did with a few luminary thinkers, including Tish Harrison Warren.
1:31.0	Now we want to offer you that interview in its full length. Tish is a native of Austin, Texas.
1:38.0	She's also a priest in the Anglican Church, as well as the author of two books, Liturgy of the Ordinary, Sacred Practices
1:46.1	in Everyday Life, which is, hands down, the best book I've ever read on spiritual formation
1:52.7	and what she calls the cussedness of ordinary life.
1:57.1	She's also the author of Prayer in the Night, her most recent work, which is absolutely beautiful
2:02.5	for those living through a dark night of the soul or just a season of pain and suffering.
2:08.2	She's also an op-ed calmness for the New York Times, as well as a prolific writer.
2:13.3	She is one of my favorite living writers, in formation in particular, but just in general, a great
2:19.6	thinker and an all-around lovely soul. So whatever you're up to, I hope you enjoy this conversation
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