Midweek Muse: WYSIWYG People

Last weekend my husband Kevin and I drove down south of Boston to enjoy a live performance by Steve Bell, Canada’s folk-gospel troubadour and treasure. Since Kevin and Steve were already friends, we arrived at the venue early enough to have a nice visit and a bite to eat before the performance. Although I had …

Fridays with Friends: Steve Bell’s expansive universe

Born into a musical family, Steve Bell has been performing and touring since he was eight years old. As Steve’s father was a prison Chaplain, it was federal prisoners in Drumheller Penitentiary who taught the young boy to play guitar at an early age. Bell recounts fondly, “I now perform world-over because Canada’s most unwanted …

In the Bleak Midwinter: A Reflection on Rossetti’s “A Christmas Carol”

"A Christmas Carol" by Christina Rossetti In the bleak midwinter   Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone. Snow had fallen, snow on snow,   Snow on snow. In the bleak midwinter   Long ago.   Our God, heaven cannot hold Him,   Nor earth sustain; Heaven and …

An Uplifting “Descent”

  An Uplifting “Descent” By Andrew Lazo In the summer of 2011, it fell to me to welcome the talented and award-winning singer / songwriter Steve Bell to the C. S. Lewis Summer Institute (aka “Oxbridge”). He’d just arrived from Canada; we met and decided to walk around Oxford. Over a pint, we discovered many …