"God isn’t a sadist who delights in using agony to teach us a lesson. But in the alchemy of redemption, God can take what is only sorrow and transform it into the very path by which we learn to love God and let ourselves be loved. This is the strange (and usually unwanted) way of the abundant life–the dying necessary to bring resurrection." -Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night

In seasons of grief, confusion, or overwhelm when we don’t know how or what to pray, the centuries-old prayers of the Church can comfort and anchor us in hope.

My conversation with Jennie Crumpler* is inspired by her life as a campus minister serving on the collegiate staff of New Life Christian Fellowship in Blacksburg, Virginia, and by Tish Harrison Warren’s Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep. Jennie and I reflect on what it means survive dark seasons and walk with others as they do the same.

01:00 Campus ministry conversation14:57 Prayer in the Night conversation

Resources Mentioned & Affiliate Links:**

Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep by Tish Harrison Warren

Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wison-Hartgrove

Northern Seminary

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