“Waiting on the Slow Work of God: How the Habit of Hope Transforms Us” with Tish Harrison Warren

Name: “Waiting on the Slow Work of God: How the Habit of Hope Transforms Us” with Tish Harrison Warren
Start: 2025-10-09T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Armerding Center for Music & the Arts

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Armerding Center for Music & the Arts | Wheaton, IL

The Marion E. Wade Center presents “Waiting on the Slow Work of God: How the Habit of Hope Transforms Us,” a lecture by Tish Harrison Warren on Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM, in the Armerding Center for Music and the Arts Concert Hall. This event is co-sponsored by the Stephen and Marjorie Mead Endowment for Spiritual Formation and the Stanley W. and Jeannette A. Bakke Endowment for Intellectual & Imaginative Engagement. A book signing will follow.
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 will invite us to reconceptualize hope – reorienting our vision from naive optimism to C.S. Lewis's "cheerful seriousness."
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.
This event is free and open to the public and will take place in Armerding Center for Music and the Arts Concert Hall, located at 520 East Kenilworth Avenue 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 [email protected].
A livestream link will be available closer to the event date, and the event will be recorded and made available on the Wade's YouTube channel.