Episode 15: Tish Harrison Warren and Stina-Kielsmeier Cook on reading in the midst of doubt, suffering and human vulnerability.

Jen is joined by Tish Harrison Warren and Stina Kielsmeier-Cook for a deep and heartfelt conversation about reading through doubt, suffering and vulnerability.Stina Kielsmeier-Cook is a writer living in Minneapolis.  (You may remember her from Episode 3!) She has a graduate diploma in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies and loves to talk about public policy, parenting, and her neighborhood. She works as Director of Communications at the Collegeville Institute, where she is also the managing editor of Bearings Online. Her first book, Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community released earlier this year with InterVarsity Press.Tish Harrison Warren is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America. She has worked in a variety of ministry settings and is currently Writer in Residence at Church of the Ascension in Pittsburgh. She is the author of the bestselling and award-winning book Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, and her widely anticipated second book will be releasing this coming January. It’s called Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep.Books mentioned in this conversation:Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community by Stina Kielsmeier-CookLiturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison WarrenPrayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep by Tish Harrison WarrenEndgame and Act Without Words by Samuel BeckettTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith by Joanna BrooksAll the Colors We Will See: Reflections on Barriers, Brokenness and Finding Our Way by Patrice GopoAereopagitica by John MiltonThe Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices by Casper ter KuileA Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss by Jerry SittserTherefore I Have Hope: 12 Truths That Comfort, Sustain and Redeem in Tragedy by Cameron ColeLament for a Son by Nicholas WolterstorffThe End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain by Scott CairnsRejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ by J. Todd BillingsThe End of the Christian Life: How Embracing Our Mortality Frees Us to Truly Live by J. Todd BillingsLit: A Memoir by Mary KarrEverything Happens For a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate BowlerThe Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist by Dorothy DayEducated: A Memoir by Tara WestoverHere If You Need Me: A True Story by Kate BraestrupThe Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth AlexanderListening for God: A Minister's Journey Through Silence and Doubt by Renita WeemsHannah Coulter: A Novel by Wendell BerryOn Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic by Jesmyn Ward (Vanity Fair Piece)Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks & A Writer's Life by Kathleen NorrisReading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulleyRemnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism and Mothering by Rosemarie Freeney HardingSanctuary: Being Christian in the Wake of Trump by Heidi NeumarkAwakened by Death: Life-Giving Lessons from the Mystics by Christiana PetersonA Book of Silence by Sara MaitlandA Young People's History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror by Howard ZinnThere is a Future: A Year of Daily Midrash by Amy Bornman