December 9th, 2010 
Tristan Those of you who have been following my Facebook or Twitter ravings probably already know how much I have been enjoying Gungor‘s new album, Beautiful Things. I’m not going to try to describe it to you, except to say that it is diverse, interesting, and worth your time… so go buy it. :) We used [...]
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 
October 10th, 2010 Tristan I recently attended Story Chicago (“a conference for the creative class”), which proved to be exceedingly thoughtful and helpful. Many conferences have the (stated or unstated) goal of providing resources, training, and networking for experts in a given field. That’s not a bad thing. But this conference was different. While I walked away with some [...]
September 20th, 2010 Tristan In photography and art, there is a concept called negative space. (Click any photo here to find its photographer on Flickr.) In each of these photographs, the negative space surrounding the subject “makes” the photo, revealing the beauty of the subject. What we might be tempted to call “emptiness” actually provides context and balance to [...]
September 11th, 2010 Tristan Our church just finished a short sermon series on the book of Ruth. Here are some of the graphics we designed to go along with the series messages, including a title slide, a background slide, and several “Ruth’s family tree” genealogy chart slides that may help people understand how all of the people in the [...]
