In this engaging discussion, Tish Harrison Warren, an Anglican priest and acclaimed author, delves into the theme of patience as a vital facet of spiritual life. She addresses the struggle against our desire for control in both mundane and monumental events, stressing the beauty of vulnerability. Tish highlights the importance of waiting with hope, balancing the urgent need for justice with the acceptance of human limitations. She also examines how modern digital culture challenges our patience and suggests ways to foster deeper connections through face-to-face interactions.
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Christian Patience and Control
Christian patience recognizes our lack of control over time, but also that God does control it.
We find meekness by trusting we're being led, receiving life as a gift, even difficult moments.
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Patience, Hope, and Redemption
True patience requires hope, especially when facing suffering and a broken world.
We must work for change, but with the understanding that redemption takes generations.
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Patience and Social Change
Patient hope enables long-term work for change, even without immediate results.
True patience is not passive acceptance of suffering, but active, hopeful striving.
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Tish Harrison Warren's "Prayer in the Night" offers solace and guidance for those facing hardship, grief, or uncertainty. It explores the power of prayer as a source of comfort and strength during challenging times. The book delves into the experiences of those who work long hours, those who care for others, and those who are grieving, providing reflections and prayers for each. It emphasizes the importance of finding hope and connection with God amidst suffering, offering a message of resilience and faith. The book's compassionate tone and relatable stories make it a comforting companion for those navigating difficult seasons of life.
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African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
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In *Reading While Black*, Esau McCaulley provides a detailed analysis of African American biblical interpretation, addressing contemporary issues such as protest and injustice, policing and police brutality, ethnicity and Black identity, and the Bible's stance on slavery. The book integrates personal narratives, insights into the Black church and American culture, and careful biblical exegesis to highlight how the Scriptures support Black justice and liberation. McCaulley draws on various biblical passages and interweaves them with the African American experience, emphasizing the Exodus narrative as a metanarrative of deliverance for the oppressed[1][2][4].
Liturgy of the Ordinary
Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
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In 'Liturgy of the Ordinary,' Tish Harrison Warren explores how daily habits and routines can be seen as sacred practices that nurture God's presence in our lives. The book frames a typical day around various ordinary activities such as making the bed, brushing teeth, and eating leftovers, demonstrating how these actions can teach us about God and our role as his followers. Warren emphasizes that even in the most mundane tasks, there are opportunities for spiritual growth and to relate to God. The book offers practical theology, easy habits to incorporate into daily routines, and discussion questions for personal reflection and group discussion.
Receiving the Day
Receiving the Day
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"We are creatures in time."
Today, the Reverend Tish Harrison Warren explores patience as spiritual formation. She’s an Anglican priest and 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. She recently started a weekly newsletter on faith in private and public life for The New York Times.
She reflects on the human demand for control in both ordinary and extraordinary life events, from the line at the supermarket to the cancer ward; the recognition of human vulnerability and just hating the fact that we can’t control what happens next; the temptation to break out of time; and the difficult balance between the urgent need for justice and the acceptance of our human and societal limits. The entire conversation is illuminated by the beauty of what Hans Urs Von Balthasar calls “the meekness of the Lamb which is led.”
Part 6 of a 6-episode series on Patience, hosted by Ryan McAnnally-Linz.
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. She has worked in ministry settings for over a decade as a campus minister with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries, as an associate rector, and with addicts and those in poverty through various churches and non-profit organizations. Currently, she is Writer in Residence at Resurrection South Austin. 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. She lives with her husband and three children in the Austin, Texas area.
Show Notes
"Part of becoming more patient is noticing how impatient you are. ... It's so not-linear."
Kids will slow you down and expose your impatience
Patience often looks like other things—"it looks like contentment, it looks like trust, it looks like endurance."
Patience and humility: "We are not the President of the United States. Things can go on without us."
"Our entire life is lived in a posture of waiting."
Waiting for the eschaton, the return of Christ, and things set right
The illusion of control—James 4:13-14
Has Urs Von Balthasar: "God intended man to have all good, but in his, God's, time and therefore all disobedience, all sin consists essentially in breaking out of time. Hence the restoration of order by the Son of God had to be the annulment of that premature snatching at knowledge, the beating down of the hand, outstretched toward eternity, the repentant return from a false, swift transfer of eternity to a true, slow confinement in time. Hence the importance of patience in the New Testament, which becomes the basic constituent of Christianity. More central, even the humility, the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one's own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism: the meekness of the Lamb which is led."
"We are creatures in time."
Robert Wilken: "singular mark of patience is hope"
Activism and patience together
"Patience can get a bad rap, that Christians are just wanting to become bovine."
Patience but not quietism, a long wait but not gradualism
The ultimate need to discern the moment
Clarence Jordan and Martin Luther King Jr.
The practices of discernment for individuals and communities
Social media trains us to be impatient
The meaning of urgent change is changing
Internet advocacy and a connected world makes us less patient people
"It takes real work to slow down and listen to another person's perspective, especially if you disagree with them."
We often don't have the patience to even understand someone else.
Real conversations with real people
Silence, solitude
"Having a body requires an enormous amount of patience."
"My kids are so slow. They're the one's teaching me to be patient!"
Little hardships of boredom and discomfort
"Life with a body and life with real people inevitably involves patience."
"Patience is something we learn our way out of through privilege and through being, you know, important adults."
Production Notes
This podcast featured priest and author the Reverend Tish Harrison Warren and theologian Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Edited and Produced by Evan Rosa
Hosted by Evan Rosa
Production Assistance by Martin Chan & Nathan Jowers
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture 
