There has been an unseen burnout epidemic among pastors for years, and it’s finally getting noticed and discussed on a wider scale, spreading through the blogosphere and even making the New York Times. After reading some of the articles, I stopped to see what the Mayo Clinic had to say about burnout. They list a [...]
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And here I thought I was just lazy
June 17th, 2010 
tristan So it turns out that perhaps the reason I can no longer concentrate or think deeply is not because I’m preoccupied and undisciplined, but because I’ve googled my brain into oblivion (or maybe it’s a little of both). I recently heard an interesting interview on NPR with Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the [...]
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Tags: contemplation, Nicholas Carr, Soul Care, spirituality 
3 Comments »The Way Up Is Down
February 23rd, 2010 tristan I’m writing a series of daily Lent meditations for our church (and whoever else is interested). If you’d like to receive one each morning, you can sign up on our church’s home page at http://www.aplacetoconnect.com (in the left nav bar) or snag a RSS feed from the REP blog at http://rep.aplacetoconnect.com. The first day’s meditation [...]
The desert or the oasis
November 2nd, 2009 tristan This video became intensely personal for me at about two minutes, when Bell talks about inviting people into a life we are not living. Every worship leader (really, anyone in “church work”, whether volunteer or paid) has felt this way during those weeks when everything is going wrong, every moment has been spoken for, and [...]
Posted in Must read, Soul Care, worship musings Tags: daily offices, divine hours, rob bell, Soul Care, worship 2 Comments »The Great Escape and several good books
May 25th, 2009 tristan I recently read the book The Trouble With Paris by Australian author and speaker Mark Sayers. Sayers is like a handy kid with a screwdriver, taking apart Western culture’s consumer-driven longings, addictions, and expectations and spinning the gears to see what makes us tick. In the process he invites his readers to think deeply about [...]
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