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Prayer in the Night

For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

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ECPA Christian Book of the Year, Christianity Today Book of the Year

An Honest, Prayerful Approach to the Difficulty of Ordinary Life

How can we trust God in the dark?

Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, explores themes of human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence. When she navigated a time of doubt and loss, the prayer was grounding for her. She writes that practices of prayer "gave words to my anxiety and grief and allowed me to reencounter the doctrines of the church not as tidy little antidotes for pain, but as a light in darkness, as good news." In Prayer in the Night, you'll find:

  • An exploration of the real struggles of everyday life, framed around a nighttime prayer of Compline
  • Discussion questions to jumpstart group conversations, and
  • Practices that offer practical, achievable ways to put Tish's wisdom into action.
  • Where do we find comfort when we lie awake worrying or weeping in the night? This book offers a prayerful and frank approach to the difficulties in our ordinary lives at work, at home, and in a world filled with uncertainty.

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      • Library Journal

        December 1, 2020

        They say timing is everything, and while Warren's (Liturgy of the Ordinary) latest work would have stood out among the many books on prayer at any time, it is particularly relevant in the age of COVID-19 when so many people find themselves working, watching, or weeping in the face of uncertainty. Warren, a priest in the Anglican Church, opens her book describing her life-threatening miscarriage. Amid the pain and confusion of the frantic treatment to stop her bleeding, Warren and her husband, also a priest, decide to pray the Compline. From the book of Common Prayer, the Compline is the last prayer of the day, designed for the nighttime to reflect on God's love and protection. Warren affirms the need for traditional, formal prayer as well as the "free form" prayer familiar to most of us. Her heartfelt treatise, arguing for the essentiality of "other peoples' words" to sustain our faith, is at once challenging and comforting, reminding us that when our world is shaken, we are strengthened by the very traditions that we tend to eschew during more certain times. VERDICT An accessible and timely book on the power of prayer.--Gail Eubanks, Univ. of Missouri, Springfield

        Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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