Books by Dale Harris

Books by Dale Harris
A Feast of Epiphanies

Though I Walk, A Novel

Daytime Moons and Other Celestial Anomalies, a book of poems

Second Wind

Second Wind
An album of songs both old and new. Recorded in 2021, a year of major transition for me, these songs explore the many vicissitudes of the spiritual life,. It's about the mountaintop moments and the Holy Saturday sunrises, the doors He opens that no one can close, and those doors He's closed that will never open again. You can click the image above to give it a listen.

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.

soundings

soundings
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"soundings" is a collection of songs I recorded in September/October of 2013. Dealing with themes of hope, ache, trust and spiritual loss, the songs on this album express various facets of my journey with God.

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.

echoes

echoes
Prayers, poems and songs (2005-2009). Click to download
"echoes" is a collection of songs I wrote during my time studying at Briercrest Seminary (2004-2009). It's called "echoes" partly because these songs are "echoes" of times spent with God from my songwriting past, but also because there are musical "echoes" of hymns, songs or poems sprinkled throughout the album. Listen closely and you'll hear them.

Accidentals

Accidentals
This collection of mostly blues/rock/folk inspired songs was recorded in the spring and summer of 2015. I call it "accidentals" because all of the songs on this project were tunes I have had kicking around in my notebooks for many years but had never found a "home" for on previous albums. You can click the image to download the whole album.

Random Reads

Seminary Flotsam (I): Creation, Covenant and the Book of Genesis

As some of my more regular readers may know, I have recently started doctorate studies in the D.Min program of Northeastern Seminary in Rochester, New York. I am still in the early stages of my work--my first on campus residency is happening two weeks from now--but between this work, and a recent visit to Briercrest Seminary, where I completed my Masters Degree, I have been reflecting fondly on the old days as a Seminary student, hungry for knowledge, hungry for truth, hungry for the Bible and especially, hungry for God.  I completed an M.Div in Pastoral Ministry at Briercrest Seminary, in Caronport Saskatchewan between the years of 2004-2009 and, as I say, I find my mind loitering on the corner of Memory Lane and Nostalgia Street a fair bit these days.

In particular, I've been going through old academic papers I wrote back then, as part of my training for ministry.  Almost a decade later, most of the stuff I've been uncovering has elicited one of two equal and opposite responses:"Wow, did I really write this!"  or "Oh, wow [face palm] did I really write that?"

As another standing feature here at terra incognita, I intend to post some of the best of the former papers here, partly to purge the nostalgia, partly for interest sake, and partly to encourage and model biblical scholarship and theological reflection more generally.  A mentor once told me, when I asked him back in seminary whether or not he thought I should abandon my plans for ministry and pursue Ph.D studies instead, that, no, I shouldn't, because the church needs pastors who value scholarship.  Ten years later, I've come to agree with him, though I would add, we need, too, parishioners who value it just as much.

That said, here's the first paper I'd like to share, a study of the creation and covenant themes in the Book of Genesis.  If you have space enough and time today for some heavier reading, then let me be the first to say: enjoy!

Paper:  "All the Families of the Earth:  Creation and Covenant Theology in Genesis"

Thesis:  The Book of Genesis uses the creation imagery and themes developed through the so-called Primeaval History of chapters 1-11 to interpret the subsequent Abrahamic covenant theologically as a creative act of God, a further forming and filling by the Lord God Most High, the creator of heaven and earth.




 

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