On Grief and Prayer: Tish Harrison Warren

Darkness, whether literal or metaphor, leaves you exposed and diminished. Spiritual darkness, the topic of our guest’s new book, can put believers into an overburdened psychological state—our sense of God impaired, with reality moving as if in slow-motion. What do we do when confronted by the absence of God? How is prayer possible when your heart is hollowed out? Is there grace to be found in debilitating weakness? Is it foolish to hope to add to the litany of gospel beatitudes: Blessed are the vulnerable, the depressed, the godforsaken? Our guest today, Tish Harrison Warren, is the author of *Prayer in the Night*, which begins autobiographically with events that took place in 2017, when she went through her own period of bone-weary, heart-breaking loss and lament.