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

The Architecture of Heaven, a devotional thought

In Revelation 21 we come to one of the most mysterious and beautiful passages in the whole book, John's vision of the Heavenly Jerusalem, descending from heaven and opening up in all its transcendent splendor. 

I find every detail of this celestial city fascinating.

We’re told, for instance, that it has 12 gates guarded by 12 angels, inscribed with the names of the 12 Tribes of Israel; and the wall of the city has 12 foundation stones, each one inscribed with the name of one of the 12 apostles. In other words: the New Jerusalem, the Heavenly City of God, is founded on the work/witness/ministry of the Apostles, and entered into through the Story of Israel. This Heavenly City is seamlessly consistent with the Old Testament story of God’s acts on behalf of Israel, and the New Testament story of his work in Jesus Christ.

And then, notice, that the foundation stones are each precious gems: jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, and so on. This, of course, recalls the 12 precious stones in the priest’s breastplate from the Book of Exodus (though they are not identically correlated). And what’s more, the city itself is a cube, as long and high as it is wide, which is the same shape as the Holy of Holies in the OT Temple/Tabernacle. 

On the one hand, all of this suggests that the description of the Tabernacle in Exodus, which many readers skip over because it seems so tedious—with its intricate priestly garments and careful temple measurements—are meant actually to give us a tiny little microcosm of Heaven. And on the other hand, it suggests that when we finally get there, these intricate, symbolic details, which seem so tedious, at times, to modern day readers, are going to be foremost among the mysteries we ponder (for eternity), as we press further in and higher up, for ever, into the beauty and glory and goodness and wonder of God.

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