"Prayer in the Night": An Interview with Tish Harrison Warren
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2021
- We invite you to join us for a C.S. Lewis College and C.S. Lewis Foundation webinar featuring Reverend Tish Harrison Warren .
Rev. Warren will give a short presentation on her new book Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep." It will be followed by an interview from our moderator, Amber Salladin, along with a Q&A session with questions from our audience.
About Tish Harrison Warren:
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, which was Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year, and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep (IVP, 2021). She has worked in ministry settings for over a decade as a campus minister with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries, as an associate rector, with addicts and those in poverty through various churches and non-profit organizations, and, most recently, as the writer-in-residence at Church of the Ascension in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a monthly columnist with Christianity Today, and her articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine, The Point Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of The Pelican Project and a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum.
Amber you have such a bright friendly countenance. Really enjoy watching these CSLewis videos in which you speak.
Amber!!! Love this! You are a good interviewer, and have much to share. Thank you!
In the midst of pain, James says to "Count it all joy when you meet trials of various kinds" and if we count it all joy, we will rejoice as we watch how God will solve this. God is faithful and trustworthy, no matter what and He will work it out. We praise the Lord when things are laid low, praise and shout hallelujah and things don't look so foggy. The wellspring of joy wells up within us because of our salvation and because of God Himself and Who He is, and how He's working in our lives, and not because of our daunting circumstances. We rejoice and thank God continually that He is working even though it looks like nothing is happening, something is happening because God is at work.
But the bible is also full of lament!!! The failure of the church to lament with each other (Psalm 13 etc) means that many people leave because we just cover up the very real and painful experiences of life. If Christianity is anything, it is realistic and caring about pain and suffering.