Acclaimed author Tish Harrison Warren to speak at Wheaton College’s Wade Center

The Marion E. Wade Center's Stephen and Marjorie Mead Endowment for Spiritual Formation at Wheaton College presents “Waiting on the Slow Work of God: How the Habit of Hope Transforms Us,” a lecture by Tish Harrison Warren on Thursday, Oct. 9. It will be at 7 p.m. in the Armerding Center for Music and the Arts Concert Hall. A book signing will follow.

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.

Warren has worked in various churches and Christian nonprofits 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, Texas, with her husband and three children.

This event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Armerding Center for Music and the Arts, Room 190 Concert Hall, located at 520 E. Kenilworth Ave. in Wheaton. Parking is located on the east side of Washington street. For more information, contact the Marion E. Wade Center at (630) 752-5908 or wade@wheaton.edu. Visit wheaton.edu/calendar-of-events/.