Jamie Howison has had an outsized impact on my work, and I owe him an enormous debt of gratitude. Some of you may want to wish him every blessing as well as he transitions into the next stage of his life…
Ours is not a crisis of knowledge, but rather, it’s a crisis of love…
For those of you interested in such things, I thought I’d let you in on the meaning behind the design of my new single, “The Divine Image”…
Jesus calls us to be peacemakers. He calls us to lower our fists and to honour the image of God in the other, even the hostile other. He goes as far as to call us to lay down our lives for the sake of our enemies. No qualifications. Full stop.
Blog and song (new video) lamenting the suffering of our planet and the human folly behind the sorrows to come…
Read Steve Bell’s Foreword to the second printing of Jamie Arpin-Ricci’s book, Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Way of St. Patrick…
The project is a “soulful marvel of songwriting, arrangement, and production.” The companion book is a collection of devotions by thoughtful pilgrims who have traveled long with these texts. Together they offer devotional music and reflection for individuals, small groups, and congregations alike…
In the fall of 2020, Westmont College commissioned me to prepare and produce three short videos reflecting on the rich tradition of Advent. Here are links to the three-part video series of reflections and songs on the season of Advent.
A free (and sharable) audio version of Steve reading book one, Advent, of his book-series, Pilgrim Year.
The song was written in November just as a northern prairie winter was starting to settle in; hardly a season (physically or emotionally) for Easter joy. For me, it was a season of terrible sorrow and anxious dread…
We’ve up up a new video for my song “Bethany in the Morning” which I hope can be a part of your Holy Week reflections.The song itself, co-written with my daughter-in-law, Diana Pops, was inspired by the events of Palm Sunday and its preceding day, Lazarus Saturday (as it is known in the Christian East.)
“…in praise of an album that belongs in the rare company of Dan Fogelberg’s “The Innocent Age” and Bruce Cockburn’s “Dancing In The Dragon’s Jaws.”
The pose I selected for this portrait reflects a somber mood—perhaps uncharacteristic of how we visualize Steve….
Without a question, Psalm 23 is one of the most well-known and highly sentimentalized of all the psalms. For all its pastoral prettiness, however, the psalm has a quality of resilient, almost rugged faith…
“We were sent here to search for the light of Easter in our hearts. And when we find it, we are meant to give it away generously.”
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.
Yesterday, after a week of prep, we finally pressed the record button on my new album…
It seems appropriate that I should share this song today, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz…
“…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…