Take a Prayerful Journey through the Christian Year with Steve Bell’s Award Winning Pilgrim Year Book Series.
About Pilgrim Year
See: Review | Phantom Tollbooth
This award-winning, seven-volume book series offers a prayerful journey through the Christian calendar year.
Drawing on poetry, music, history, and tradition, Bell’s devotional reflections guide the reader through the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and Ordinary time.
Steve’s unique reflections animate a rich spiritual tradition for the seasoned and the novice alike.
The two-disc companion CDs (corresponding to the series) features seasonal songs drawn from Steve’s three-decades catalogue of music.
Bell’s Pilgrim Year lays out a rich banquet of theology, memoir, poetry and song. The experience of reading, reflecting and then listening, was a bit like being at a really well-developed spiritual conference or retreat.
Craig Terlson
author of Fall in One Day
In Pilgrim Year, Steve Bell does something truly remarkable: he brings readers into a deeply thoughtful and creative exploration of the ancient Christian calendar. Readers familiar with the liturgical seasons and readers encountering them for the first time will find themselves caught up in Bell’s use of song, poetry and personal reflection.
Dr. Michael Boyce
Vice President Academic, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, Booth University College
These meditations combine a scholar’s learning, a poet’s precision, a musician’s imagination, an adult’s realism, and a Christian’s faith – and faithfulness.
John Stackhouse
Author / Theologian
The Pilgrim Year series is an insightful and deeply personal walk through the major seasons of the liturgical year. Everything we’ve come to love about Steve Bell is evident here: his warmth, his stories, and his rich theological insight. What a treasure!
Dr. Christine Longhurst
Assistant Professor of Worship and Music at Canadian Mennonite University
Pilgrim Year Single Book — Advent
Advent, where we consider the mystery of the human person, whose dignity is to accept the invitation to take part in the drama of salvation, co-operating to bring Christ’s life to the world.
Pilgrim Year Single Book — Christmas
In Pilgrim Year – Christmas, we embrace the humble incarnation of the Creator of the cosmos and reflect on the astonishing humanity of Jesus.
Pilgrim Year Single Book — Epiphany
In Pilgrim Year – Epiphany, we meditate on the miracles and events that revealed Jesus’ divinity, and explore the two natures (human and divine) of Christ, to whom our souls are wed.
Pilgrim Year Single Book — Lent
In Pilgrim Year – Lent, we ponder the devastation wrought by our infidelities as well as the attachments and desires that draw our affections away from our Lord.
Pilgrim Year Single Book — Holy Week
In Pilgrim Year – Holy Week, we walk alongside Jesus to
the cross, where he took on our sins and redeemed us so that we might again truly and freely love, as well as know we are beloved by God.
Pilgrim Year Single Book — Easter
In Pilgrim Year – Easter, we experience a sustained reflection on the miracle of resurrection and the eternally evergreen life on offer through Christ’s victory over death.
Pilgrim Year Single Book — Ordinary Time
In Pilgrim Year – Ordinary Time, we come to realize the astonishing holiness of our daily lives. Here, we begin to understand with joy that the daily is impregnated with the divine.
Pilgrim Year Companion CD (2 CD Set)
A double CD of Steve’s music used in the Pilgrim Year Book Series