by Steve | Jun 23, 2016 | Musings
The following is excerpted from Steve Bell’s Pilgrim Year: Ordinarytide. This particular text is written by guest contributor Amy Knight who lives in Winnipeg and works doing concert and product administration for Signpost Music. Pilgrim Year is an online,...
by Steve | Jun 20, 2016 | Musings
At noon today I’ll be singing the following two songs (below) at a luncheon hosted by the Canadian Foodgrains Bank held to commemorate World Refugee Day. I’m told the lunch will be simple fare in sober solidarity with the 60 million souls currently...
by Steve | May 21, 2016 | Musings
The following it excerpted from Steve Bell’s Pilgrim Year, a multi-modal online collection of reflections on the spirituality of the Christian calendar year. The series, which includes offerings from guest contributors Malcolm Guite, Bob Bennett, Alana...
by Steve | May 5, 2016 | Musings
Although Ascension is now celebrated in many churches on the 7th Sunday of Easter, the official day is 40 days after Easter Sunday. a Ascension doesn’t mean absence; it means sovereignty, exercised through the Spirit. —N.T. Wright From a young age, I was taught...
by Steve | May 1, 2016 | Musings
The following is a reflection on the lectionary readings for the sixth Sunday of Easter (Year C) : Ezekiel 37:1-14 / John 14:23-29 /Revelation 21:10, 22—22:5. Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open up your graves, and bring you up from your graves…And you shall...
by Steve | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Musings
God’s new world of justice and joy, of hope for the whole earth, was launched when Jesus came out of the tomb on Easter morning, and I know that he calls us to live in him and by the power of his Spirit and so to be new-creation people here and now, bringing...
by Steve | Mar 20, 2016 | Musings
. As a child I quietly harboured an uneasy dislike for Palm Sunday. The processions, the palm waving, the triumphant chorus: “Blessed is He who comes in the Lord’s own name. Hosanna! Hosanna in the highest!” Triumphalism bothered me then, and it...
by Steve | Feb 9, 2016 | Musings
Dear Reader, The following is Chapter 4 in the Lent collection of reflections found in the Pilgrim Year series: a multi-modal, media rich series of online (mobile device friendly) reflections on the Spirituality of the Christian Calendar year. I’ve done a fair...
by Steve | Jan 30, 2016 | Musings
Clean Monday : First Day of Lent (Eastern Rite) -by Steve Bell Dear reader, this is chapter 3, excerpted from the Lent collection of reflections found in the Pilgrim Year collection: a multimedia experience through the seasons of “theological time” – Advent,...
by Steve | Jan 4, 2016 | Musings
The following is Chapter 2 from the Epiphany collection in my Pilgrim Year collection of devotional, multi-media e-books on the spirituality of the Christian calendar year. The complete collection—Advent, Christmastide, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Eastertide and...