Prayer in the Night
For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
by Tish Harrison Warren
How can we trust God in the dark?
Framed around the nighttime prayer of Compline, 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:
“It was this practice that gave me words for my anxiety and grief and allowed me to reencounter doctrines of the church — the church’s claims about reality — not as rational, tidy little antidotes for pain but as a light in darkness, as good news.”
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.
2021 Intervarsity Press
About the Author
Tish Harrison Warren is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America. She has worked in ministry settings for over a decade as a campus minister with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries, as an associate rector, as an outreach worker to those in poverty, and, most recently, as the Writer in Residence at Church of the Ascension in Pittsburgh, PA.
She is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, which won Christianity Today’s 2018 Book of the Year. Her articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine, The Point Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband and three children in Pittsburgh, PA.
Find her at tishharrisonwarren.com.