Author's Note
Part One: Praying in the Dark
Prologue
1. Finding Compline: Nightfall
2. Keep Watch, Dear Lord: Pain and Presence
Part Two: The Way of the Vulnerable
3. Those Who Weep: Lament
4. Those Who Watch: Attention
5. Those Who Work: Restoration
Part Three: A Taxonomy of Vulnerability
6. Give Your Angels Charge over Those Who Sleep: Cosmos and
Commonplace
7. Tend the Sick, Lord Christ: Embodiment
8. Give Rest to the Weary: Weakness and Silence
9. Bless the Dying: Ashes
10. Soothe the Suffering: Comfort
11. Pity the Afflicted: Relentlessness and Revelation
12. Shield the Joyous: Gratitude and Indifference
Part Four: Culmination
13. And All for Your Love's Sake: Dawn
Acknowledgments
Discussion Questions and Suggested Practices
Notes
Tish Harrison Warren is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, which was Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year. She is a weekly contributing newsletter writer for the New York Times and writes a monthly column for Christianity Today. She has worked in ministry settings for over a decade as a campus minister with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries and as the writer-in-residence at Church of the Ascension in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine, The Point, and elsewhere.
"An accessible and timely book on the power of prayer."
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