I recently read an article by Vaughan Roberts in which Roberts relates the following encounter: Some years ago I was on a mission in London. After one of our meetings, another team member came to me and said: “Why don’t you hold out your hands when you sing?” I have nothing against that practice. There [...]
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The Story Conference, Hope, Darkness… Stuff Like That
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 [...]
What Kind of Music Does God Like?
August 16th, 2010
Tristan I think just about every worship pastor I know has occasionally had to deal with disagreements about music style. This seems to be a debate that is of far more concern to churches in the United States than in other countries, probably because we seldom, if ever, need to worry about responding to 75% of [...]
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 [...]
Beauty-craving
October 1st, 2008
Tristan In a post a while back I said I would write about what I called “an old-new foundation for living as creative artists in the Kingdom”. I guess this post counts as one installment in that (slightly stretched out) series. When I was on the recent missions trip to Arrowhead Bible Camp, I was again [...]

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