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

From the Beginning: A Devotional Commentary on Genesis (X)

In Genesis 19:1-10, Abraham and the Lord have a long discussion about the fate of the city of Sodom that I find challenging and convicting. In a nutshell, God tells Abraham that he intends to destroy the city because of its wickedness, and Abraham intercedes: "What if 50 righteous can be found in it?" God says, "Then I'll spare it for the sake of 50 righteous." So Abraham says, "What if only 45 can be found." Again God says: "For the sake of 45, I'll spare it." And on they go: for 40? for 35? Abraham gets all the way down to ten people. And God agrees, that for the sake of 10 people, he'd spare the city.

And then, Abraham leaves off interceding for the city at 10. Some of this depends on how you interpret verse 18:33, but it seems to me like Abraham stops there before God does--at least, he doesn't say, "What if 5? What if 3? What if only one righteous person could be found?" (Incidentally, if Lot and his wife had 2 sons, 2 married daughters, 2 sons-in-law and 2 unmarried daughters (which is what I count in vv. 19:8-14) then it could very well be that Abraham had a specific 10 in mind).

This is a bit of a random observation, and I realize there are a lot of theological implications in a question like this, that a blog post isn't the best place to unpack, but at the very least it got me wondering: Am I at all like Abraham, and ready to give up interceding for my city before the Lord is ready to stop hearing my intercessions?

 

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