Holy Hygge

Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

By: Jamie Erickson

Narrated by: Ann Kimberly

Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

Women were made to give life—and they can do that right in their own homes.

Hygge [hue-guh] has become a cultural buzzword. When many read about this Danish practice, their shoulders lift in excitement, then fall in exhale. In a culture of rush, hygge appeals to their desire for rest—for slow living, shared moments, and fostered friendships. Hygge has strong ties to beauty, contentment, and well-being. It’s warm and inviting. Hygge is the opposite of hustle. It eschews abundance. It savors. It takes things slow and envelopes you in sanctuary. Hygge is home. When you sit in a comfy chair by the fire, that’s hygge. When you arrange a fresh bouquet of wildflowers on a bedside table, that’s hygge too. Candles, soft furnishings, natural light, fresh-baked pastries, intimate gatherings with friends—these are what come to mind when you think of hygge. But hygge can be so much more.

In Holy Hygge, author Jamie Erickson unites the popular Danish practice with the deep theological truths of the gospel. She unpacks the seven tenets of hygge: hospitality, relationships, well-being, atmosphere, comfort, contentment, and rest. In addition, Erickson shows how the external veneer of a lifestyle can create a life-giving home only when placed under the hope of the gospel. Holy Hygge provides practical ideas for using hygge to gather people and introduce them to faith in Christ. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions, Scripture references, and a prayer.

©2022 Jamie Erickson (P)2022 Jamie Erickson

loved this book

such a great listen! lots of tangible ways to live a hygge lifestyle! highly recommend!

good book

This was a delightful audio. I learned some new perspectives. This book isn't just about the home but life and growth.

Favorite book this year!

What a charming and uplifting book on how to prepare our thoughts and lives for Holy living! I love how this author weaves into her life the things that we desire to do as Godly women, but what we can barely accomplish sometimes because we get too busy trying to do unnecessary things that are useless to our calling to care for our brothers and sisters in Christ. As a Pastors wife who deals with chronic illness, this book (and more importantly) the Bible verses and thought provoking questions have caused me to re-evaluate those things that seem important and hone in on the things that ARE important in order to bring balance to this life. Thank you for your encouragement, thoughtfulness and for having the courage to be transparent so that the rest of us might be able to live the hygee life so that we might find it easier to live as Gods people!

Helpful reframing of American hurry

This book was as great perspective on the importance or rest in everyday life and the elimination of hurry in the unimportant.

Best I’ve read in a while!

Everyone esp on the cold long winters would benefit from this message. Great perspective. Helpful info! Esp as someone moving back to Mn.

Beautifully written and inspiring

I loved loved loved this book! It was exactly what I needed! My only doc on the star was because she oddly calls Sunday the Sabbath. I get people thinking they are “free from bondage” of the law, but I have never heard anyone call any day except the seventh day Saturday, the Sabbath. 🤔 In more than 100 languages the word for Saturday is something similar to sabbath, sabado, sobatto, Shabbat, sabet, etc.

Encouraging book for simply living for Christ

This is an encouraging book! Gave glimpses of how to live simply for Christ and invite others to simply live with us. I’ll be listening to it over again for sure.

Rich Encouragement

This book is both compelling and encouraging for every woman looking to further the gospel in their homes and community. The author offers both spiritual and practical encouragement on how to share the love of Christ in the mundane.

Wonderful! So many thoughtful suggestions & reminders

Loved reading this book. So many phenomenal takeaways and practical action steps for Christ-like living through our home and our everyday choices.

Couldn’t get past the hospitality chapter

I’m sure this book is probably lovely and inspiring for normal people. However, as someone who has spent the last year on an extremely restrictive diet, I couldn’t get past the chapter about hospitality.

The author says that eating meals together is a way to equalize everyone and make people feel welcomed and create a space for people to share and connect. She says that God created meals and “breaking bread” to be this wonderful time of love and acceptance and how it shows his love to us.

For people without diet restrictions this can be true. But for me, this was honestly pretty triggering to listen to. For me, shared meals have become a nightmare, a time of inequality, a knife in the wound of feeling “on the outside.” Her equating hospitality to sharing food together and saying it’s a Biblical command brought up all the old feelings I struggled with most at the beginning of this diet—why would God allow this? Does he even care? Etc etc....

So while this author can enjoy her pasta nights and BBQ ribs and cookie exchanges, all in the name of being more Christ-like because she’s sharing food with people, I will set this book aside for the time being and find something that is more relatable.