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

Bring Back the Buffalo (I)

This last weekend I had the great privilege to participate in a special encounter trip to a Pelican Lake First Nations Reserve, an Indigenous community in northern Saskatchewan. We were there to witness and celebrate the establishment of a new herd of buffalo, as part of an act of reconciliation with Canada's First Peoples. "Bring Back the Buffalo" is an initiative led a asocial development organization called Loko Koa, in partnership with Tearfund Canada, a Christian relief ministry. The goal is to build relationships and help Indigenous peoples rebuild their cultural identity by working to re-establish self-sustaining herds of buffalo among Canada's First Nations. To date, Loko Koa has planted 9 herds of buffalo on 9 different reserves, and, like I say, we were there this weekend to celebrate the 9th herd-- 20 females, 2 males, and 18 calves-- planted on the land of the Pelican Lake First Nation. Our church was one of the donor organizations for this particular herd, and we were graciously invited to send a delegation to celebrate their release.


I am planning to share more about this experience in the coming days, as it was a formative experience on many levels: we received rich learning about Indigenous culture, the role that the buffalo traditionally have played in it, and the importance of Indigenous cultural traditions as an essential piece of cultural identity; we were challenged to think through the implications of our own identity as settlers and treaty people, and we were challenged to think through aspects of our own faith and relationship with the Lord, to understand how the Christian Gospel relates to traditional Indigenous spirituality, and vice versa. 

Over the next few weeks, I hope to share more about all of these aspects of the experience, from the way it stretched me theologically to the rich learning and faith-shaping encounters I had, from the deeper insight I had into to the mission of Jesus, to the clear the call to reconciliation and right relationship that it left ringing in my spiritual ears. It will take me a day or two to collect my thoughts and process my feelings about all that, however, so in the meantime, here are just a few photos from the trip, as a hint of what's to come.




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