Tish Harrison Warren

Liturgy of the Ordinary

Tish Harrison Warren's Liturgy of the Ordinary begins with a simple but disorienting claim: the most important spiritual formation in your life is not happening at a conference, a retreat, or even in Sunday's sermon — it is happening right now, in the small, repeated, almost invisible acts of your daily life. Framed around a single ordinary day, each chapter takes something Warren actually does — waking up, making the bed, losing her keys, eating leftovers, checking her phone — and traces the deep theological and liturgical currents running underneath it. Drawing on the Anglican tradition, thinkers like James K. A. Smith and Alexander Schmemann, and the rhythms of Christian corporate worship, Warren argues that our habits and daily rituals are quietly but powerfully shaping who we are and what we love. The ordinary is not the waiting room for real spiritual life; it is spiritual life.