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 [...]
August 30th, 2010 Tristan 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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