Mead Spiritual Formation Endowment with Tish Harrison Warren

“Waiting on the Slow Work of God: How the Habit of Hope Transforms Us”

Thursday, October 9 @ 7pm in Armerding Concert Hall

Explore with us how the Christian habit of hope transforms perseverance from a grim act of “sucking it up” to a patient, expectant waiting on God. Drawing from the wisdom of Wade Center authors and early Church Fathers and Mothers, Tish Harrison Warren invites us to reconceptualize hope -- reorienting our vision from naive optimism to C.S. Lewis's "cheerful seriousness."

A book signing followed the talk. This evening is co-sponsored by the Bakke Endowment for Intellectual & Imaginative Engagement.

Tish Harrison Warren is a writer and an Anglican priest. She is the author of several books, including Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, which won Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year, and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep, which won Christianity Today's 2022 Book of the Year and the 2022 ECPA Christian Book of the Year.

She formerly wrote a weekly newsletter for The New York Times, which focused on faith in public discourse and private life. She was also a columnist for Christianity Today and her articles and essays have appeared in Comment Magazine, The Point Magazine, Religion News Service and elsewhere. She is a senior fellow with The Trinity Forum.

Tish has worked in various churches and Christian non-profits for over two decades, serving as a parish priest, a campus minister, and with those affected by poverty and addiction. She now serves as Artist-in-Residence at Immanuel Anglican Church, and lives in Austin, TX, with her husband and three children.

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