Vacation/Sabbath/Balance

VACATION/SABBATH/BALANCE

Do Us a Favor, Take a Vacation

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_21/b4035088.htm

Alpha Dads: Men Get Serious About Work-Life Balance - Businessweek

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-30/alpha-dads-men-get-serious-about-work-life-balance

Alban - How Do Clergy Observe Sabbath?

http://www.alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=10238

Redefining a Successful Life

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/your-money/a-call-for-a-movement-to-redefine-the-successful-life.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

Cycle of Scarcity

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/escaping-the-cycle-of-scarcity/?hp&_r=1

Burnout

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/nyregion/02burnout.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

Dear Church, 11 signs you’re burning out your staff. - Stuff Christians Like

http://stuffchristianslike.net/2013/11/13/dear-church-11-signs-youre-burning-staff/

75 Years In The Making: Harvard Just Released Its Epic Study On What Men Need To Live A Happy Life  http://www.feelguide.com/2013/04/29/75-years-in-th-making-harvard-just-released-its-epic-study-on-what-men-require-to-live-a-happy-life/

Taking Breaks--You’re Doing It Wrong | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

http://www.fastcompany.com/3022906/leadership-now/taking-breaks-youre-doing-it-wrong

10 Ways to Rekindle Your Passion for Work

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/rekindle-work-passion/

Keep It Collared

http://www.keepitcollared.org/

5 reasons why you shouldn’t work too hard

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/02/21/5-things-you-get-from-working-too-hard/

Your 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour | Jeff Archibald

http://jeffarchibald.ca/60-hour-work-week-badge-honour/

Busyness is Not a Virtue : iDoneThis blog

http://blog.idonethis.com/post/45912361388/busyness-not-virtue

Why People Work For Rewards They’ll Never Get to Enjoy | Hazlitt

http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/blog/why-people-work-rewards-theyll-never-get-enjoy

The One Thing Christians Should Stop Saying | The Accidental Missionary

http://theaccidentalmissionary.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/the-one-things-christians-should-stop-saying/

What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking and Sacred Space

http://99u.com/articles/6947/what-happened-to-downtime-the-extinction-of-deep-thinking-sacred-space

Brigid Schulte's Overwhelmed and our epidemic of busyness.  

 http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/03/brigid_schulte_s_overwhelmed_and_our_epidemic_of_busyness.html

Self-Care & Mental Health

SELF-CARE/MENTAL HEALTH

Ed Moore: Clergy depression paralyzes | Faith & Leadership

http://www.faithandleadership.com/content/ed-moore-clergy-depression-paralyzes

Ten Ways to Support your Pastor

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-emily-c-heath/ten-ways-to-support-your-_b_4306203.html

Our Dangerous Obsession with External Recognition  - Daniel Gulati - Harvard Business Review

http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/12/our-dangerous-obsession-with-external-recognition/

Trudy Cusella: Grief over lost pastor keeps its own schedule  - Opinion - The Buffalo News

http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/trudy-cusella-grief-over-lost-pastor-keeps-its-own-schedule-20131210

Use The 80/20 Rule To Improve Your Life! Here's How

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-12046/use-the-80-20-rule-to-improve-your-life-heres-how.html

Eight Signs You Should See a Therapist

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/8-signs-you-should-see-a_n_4718245.html

“What were you thinking?” A letter from the bishop of Atlanta

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2014/02/21/what-were-you-thinking-a-letter-from-the-bishop-of-atlanta/

Why People Behave in Self-Defeating, Irrational Ways and How to Really Change | Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/why-people-behave-self-defeating-irrational-ways-and-how-really-change?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark

What Perry Noble’s admission says about mental illness, stigma and church | Church4EveryChild

http://drgrcevich.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/what-perry-nobles-admission-says-about-mental-illness-stigma-and-church/

Take a Walk, Sure, but Don’t Call It a Break - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review

http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/take-a-walk-sure-but-dont-call-it-a-break/

Make It Work: How to Check Your Emotions in Treatment: Beating yourself up after a tough session? Stop it. Instead, ask yourself these five questions and see what you can learn.

http://leader.pubs.asha.org/Article.aspx?articleid=1841208

Why Do So Many Pastors Leave the Ministry? The Facts Will Shock You | ExPastors.com

http://www.expastors.com/why-do-so-many-pastors-leave-the-ministry-the-facts-will-shock-you/

Death & Dying

DEATH & DYING

Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-unrealistic-views-of-death-through-a-doctors-eyes/2012/01/31/gIQAeaHpJR_story.html

Living With The Mystery Of Our Death | yourpublicmedia.org

http://www.yourpublicmedia.org/node/23243

NY TIMES BLOGS

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/better-if-not-cheaper-care/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130104

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/death-be-not-decaffeinated-over-cup-groups-face-taboo/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130617

Death: It’s time to break the taboo

http://www.anglicannews.org/comment/2013/06/death-its-time-to-break-the-taboo.aspx

Beyond Words: The Power of Silence, Even at the Grave. | The Sub-Dean’;s Stall

http://thesubdeansstall.org/2014/01/11/beyond-words-the-power-of-silence-even-at-the-grave/

Nobody's Son : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/01/nobodys-son.html?mobify=0

Grave Talk; - CofE trial project on discussing funerals and death

http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2014/01/grave-talk-cofe-trial-project-on-discussing-funerals-and-death.aspx

Ashes to Ashes, But First a Nice Pine Box http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/opinion/sunday/ashes-to-ashes-but-first-a-nice-pine-box.html?_r=2

Preparing an Episcopal Funeral | Cokesbury

http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=1212273&rank=11&txtSearchQuery=episcopal+funeral

Palliative Care: Strategies for End of Life - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304709904579411083208419794

Ash Wednesday Sermon on Truth, Dust, Babies, and Funerals

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber/2014/03/ash-wednesday-sermon-on-truth-dust-babies-and-funerals/