In Everyday Epiphanies, Jim Harnish weaves together Scripture, story, history, poetry, cinema to summon and guide us to pay attention to our lives, experiences, creation, the people around us, trusting that what we need for the living of our days has already been made available to us. This is a book full of wisdom from one who has “gained a wise heart" by paying attention. 

—Gregory Palmer, Executive Secretary, Council of Bishops, The United Methodist Church 

Get ready to soak in these rich biblical texts, which will lead you to surprising moments of epiphany awe. Practicing spiritual disciplines help prepare us to be startled by God’s light, which appears unbidden on our path. In reading and reflecting on Epiphany, I found myself continually singing, “Tune thy heart to sing thy grace,” from the famous hymn “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing.” 

—Charlene P. Kammerer, Bishop, The United Methodist Church, retired 

Too often, we think of the season between Advent and Lent as merely a pause to catch our breath between Christmas and Easter. But Jim Harnish’s latest book reminds us that Epiphany is itself full of wondrous possibility. In recalling the stories between Christ’s birth and the start of his public ministry, we discover that God’s capacity to surprise us takes no such pause. We just need to open our eyes and our hearts to experience the splendor of grace, every day. 

—Magrey R. deVega, Senior Pastor of Hyde Park United Methodist Church in Tampa, Florida, and author of Questions Jesus Asked and The Christmas Letters 

Jim Harnish is a wise pastor and a brilliant interpreter of the Scriptures, but in these pages he also becomes for us an essential guide to the ordinary and ongoing ways Christ is present with us.  Epiphany is a season of the church and a spiritual practice, and we will more fully access these gifts as we journey through these pages. 

—Ken Carter, Bishop, The United Methodist Church, Western North Carolina Conference, and author of Unrelenting Grace 

James Harnish’s Everyday Epiphanies is a soul-stirring jam session, riffing on the wild notion that Christ crashes our mundane moments with divine surprises. The book is a kaleidoscope of grace, spinning sacred stories and street-level epiphanies into a dazzling dance of faith that’ll jolt your spirit awake. Harnish doesn’t just write—he ignites a holy fire to see God’s glory blazing in the everyday grind. 

—Leonard Sweet, prolific author, professor, preacher, publisher, proprietor (sanctuaryseaside.com) 

Jim Harnish is a master of training his attention on the grace of God. It’s no surprise that Everyday Epiphanies will make you want to do the same. 

—Preston Davis, Vice President and Minister to the University, High Point University 

Jim Harnish’s new book, Everyday Epiphanies, is an invitation to wonder, faith, and revelation.  Jim helps us find glimpses of goodness and glory hidden in ordinary, even mundane, moments.  God is in dark gardens and smelly stables, not just on sunny mountaintops and synagogues. God can be found, if you keep your eyes and heart open, in the quiet moments of the everyday. 

—Christine Parton Burkett, Consulting Faculty, Duke Divinity School