Favourite things, poems and songs for Good Friday
The biblical tradition cannot be easily understood looking from the top-down as most of the scriptures were written by oppressed peoples throughout history…
Thoughts and Songs for Palm Sunday 2020
The unique glory of this sovereign is not in the display of splendour and power common to Pharaohs, Emperors, Presidents and the like, but rather in the unlikely display of radical humility, solidarity and compassion with the marginalized and miserable….
THE WELLSPRING – A Sunday Song
Each Sunday I’ll try to post a song or two for those who are shut-in and shut out of church. – SB Yesterday was such…
Your Sunday Song(s)
Sunday Songs | March 22 | For those shut in or shut out of Worship
The Water Runs: A Reflection and Song
A reflection and a song based on Sunday’s lectionary readings for March 15. Offered to those shut in or shut out of Church on account of the coronavirus.
New Album / Podcast / Interview / An initial word about Jean Vanier
Yesterday, after a week of prep, we finally pressed the record button on my new album…
Feb. 2: Candlemas – The Feast of the Presentation of Jesus
Thoughts and a song for a somewhat subversive feast. – by Steve Bell
On the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
It seems appropriate that I should share this song today, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz…
DECEMBER 28: THE FEAST OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS
“…the gospels don’t let us off easily. Jesus—light from light, true God from true God—enters history as a vulnerable victim of Herodian cruelty, not aligned with the settled and powerful, but rather with the dispossessed and fleeing. Indeed, the One whom the Old Testament prophet-poets laud as our rock and refuge is now revealed as…
STRANGE BLESSING: The Feast of St. Stephen
St. Stephen, whose sufferings in defence of a gospel oriented toward the poor and marginalized gave witness (birth) to a radically different way of being in this world.