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Tish Harrison Warren is a writer and a priest in the Anglican Church in North America.

Her book, Liturgy of the Ordinary, was Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year,

and she just released Prayer in the Night for those who work or watch or weep a few weeks ago.

What has that initial response been, as you've seen the book kind of go out?

Yeah. I mean, it's always fun, right? I mean, you've experienced this as an author.

It's fun to see people respond to your work and resonate with your work. And,

I mean, especially when people really like your work. I mean, writing is not a solitary task. The whole time I was sharing what I was writing with my editor and with friends and getting

feedback and talking to people about it. But there is a lot of time

that you spend in a room by yourself. And then the analogy I've used like elsewhere and others is it

feels like a message in the bottle. Like you send it out to see, you don't know if anyone will find it,

if it'll just sink to the bottom of the sea. So it always feels like this miracle when people find it and then then you get a bottle back,

like people write back and talk about how it resonated with them.

And with both my books, what I love is people will talk about the book and how much it meant to them

and give specific sentences,

et cetera. You know, like, so I loved it when you said this, but then they inevitably start

talking about their own lives. Like my books, when they resonate with readers, what readers

start talking about is their own lives, how this looks in their own life,

which is different, right, than often in my own life or what I say. So it feels like there's some

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