January 18th, 2012 
Tristan Anyone serving in a church, paid or unpaid, can identify with the strain Glenn Packiam shares in his recent post about the tension between busy church life and the contemplative life. In it he quotes Gregory (Bishop of Rome, b. 540), who wrote: “On every side I am tossed by the waves of business, and [...]
September 26th, 2011 Tristan Welcome to the blog, friends from the 2011 Inner Journey spiritual disciplines retreat! What a great time. I loved spending a weekend in worship with you all. Below is the resource list I mentioned at the retreat for practicing prayer and the daily offices. Click on any title to view that book at Amazon. The [...]
Posted in Books, Must read, Soul Care, worship resources 
Tags: books, contemplation, daily offices, divine hours, Soul Care, spiritual disciplines 
November 15th, 2010 Tristan Not too long ago, TED.com posted a talk by Jessa Gamble entitled “How to sleep”. The talk is only 4 minutes long and centers around the human body clock and sleep/waking cycles. Judging from the comments, it left many viewers intrigued but unsatisfied: How can we get more information about this? What is she suggesting [...]
Posted in Soul Care Tags: contemplation, daily offices, divine hours, Soul Care, spiritual disciplines 
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 [...]
