Books by Dale Harris

Books by Dale Harris
The Lives of the Saints and Other Poems

A Feast of Epiphanies

Though I Walk, A Novel

Daytime Moons and Other Celestial Anomalies, a book of poems

A Theory of Everything (Vol 1)

A Theory of Everything (Vol 1)

A Theory of Everything (Vol 2)

A Theory of Everything (Vol 2)

The Song Became a Child

The Song Became a Child
A collection of Christmas songs I wrote and recorded during the early days of the pandemic lockdown in the spring of 2020. Click the image to listen.

There's a Trick of the Light I'm Learning to Do

There's a Trick of the Light I'm Learning to Do
This is a collection of songs I wrote and recorded in January - March, 2020 while on sabbatical from ministry. They each deal with a different aspect or expression of the Gospel. Click on the image above to listen.

Three Hands Clapping

Three Hands Clapping
This is my latest recording project (released May 27, 2019). It is a double album of 22 songs, which very roughly track the story of my life... a sort of musical autobiography, so to speak. Click the album image to listen.

Ghost Notes

Ghost Notes
A collections of original songs I wrote in 2015, and recorded with the FreeWay Musical Collective. Click the album image to listen.

inversions

inversions
Recorded in 2014, these songs are sort of a chronicle of my journey through a pastoral burn-out last winter. They deal with themes of mental-health, spiritual burn-out and depression, but also with the inexorable presence of God in the midst of darkness. Click the album art to download.

bridges

bridges
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"Bridges" is a collection of original songs I wrote in the summer of 2011, during a soul-searching trip I took out to Alberta; a sort of long twilight in the dark night of the soul. I share it here in hopes these musical reflections on my own spiritual journey might be an encouragement to others: the sun does rise, blood-red but beautiful.

Random Reads

Weeping Rachel's Tears

Here's last Sunday's sermon, the second sermon in our series on the childhood of Jesus. I almost didn't post it. Being the first Sunday after Epiphany (where the church traditionally remembers the Visit of the Magi), this story of Joseph and Mary's flight to Egypt seemed a natural text to turn to, but it turned out to be much more difficult-- more pastorally and thematically and exegetically demanding--than I ever imagined.

On the one hand, I don't think we can really get what's going on in this story unless we listen intently for the parallels between Jesus and Israel here, parallels that seem so natural to Matthew, yet seem so counter-intuitive to our modern, linear way of reading. And then there's the dark reality of what's actually happening in this text, a reality that, if we honestly upheld the Word's authority over our hearts, should cut us to the quick.
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Matthew 2:13-23: Weeping Rachel's Tears

 

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