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

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

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

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

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

Come Out of Her, O My People, a devotional thought

In Revelation 18 we come across St. John's agonized account of the fall of the “City of Babylon” (18:1-3), which is depicted as a "great prostitute" riding a "seven-headed beast with a blasphemous name."  As best as I can tell, the "Adulterous Queen of Babylon" is a cipher for the City of Rome, the capital of the Empire in John’s day. And in the apocalyptic vision of Revelation, the Roman Empire is itself is symbolic of any and all “empire-building projects” that set themselves up in opposition to the Reign of God, the way the Roman Empire had done in John's day. 

This a deeper thought than you could unpack in a short devotional, maybe, but after reading through the long list of the “luxuries of Babylon” we find in Revelation 18—the gold, silver, precious stones, food, spices, horses, chariots and fine clothing—all of which are “in one hour laid waste!” (18:17)—it left me wondering. John seems convinced that there is a spiritual reality, lurking behind all that wealth and its accumulation—a reality that would leave you trembling if you could see it plainly—a reality best envisioned as a promiscuous queen riding a death-spewing chimera, intoxicating the nations with her corruption (18:7). 

That’s what was really on display when your average Roman strolled down to market and bought or sold on any given day in the Roman Empire. And, like I say, it leaves me wondering: what spiritual realities lurk behind the social structures that we take for granted in prosperous, brightly-lit modern day Canada— the political, economic, or technological "powers" that we have to do with—and as Christians, are we as in tune to them, as John was in his day?

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