Reception, Dinner and Concert
Thursday, February 6, 2025, 6:00 pm
Westmont College
Global Leadership Center
955 La Paz Rd., Santa Barbara
Please be my guest for dinner and an evening of music and worship with Steve Bell, the award-winning Christian musician, and Malcolm Guite, an Anglican Priest, poet, theologian and Chaplain at Cambridge University.
Gayle D. Beebe, President
Westmont College
Evening Format
6:00-7:15 pm Reception & Dinner
7:15-7:30 pm Welcome Update from President Beebe
7:30-8:30 pm Concert with Steve Bell and Malcolm Guite
Steve Bell
Steve Bell is a Canadian Christian songwriter and storyteller. He is a dear friend of Westmont who has blessed us in many settings with his deeply personal and uplifting performances. Steve has produced 21 solo CDs and won numerous music-industry awards, including Gospel Music Association of Canada Covenant Awards: 2018 Album of the Year (Where the Good Way Lies); 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award; 2018 Collaboration of the Year (Where The Good Way Lies); and 2018 Inspirational Song of the Year (Wait Alone in Stillness). He has performed more than 2,000 concerts to more than a half million people in 15 countries. In 2020, Steve released Wouldn't You Love to Know? He released No Words: The Guitar Instrumentals 1995-2023 and his most recent release is called is A Glad Surprise. In addition to a book he's co-authored on the Psalms, he's authored a seven-book series on the spirituality of the Christian calendar year called Pilgrim Year accompanied by a 2 CD compilation set of the music highlighting the Christian calendar year songs that Steve has produced over his career.
Watch Steve perform at Westmont's Chapel (beginning at 6:10)
Malcolm Guite
Malcolm Guite is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. He is Life Fellow, and former Chaplain, of Girton College (Cambridge) where he also teaches for the Divinity Faculty. He lectures widely in England and North America on theology and literature. Guite has published poetry, theology, and literary criticism, and worked as a librettist. His books include Word in the Wilderness, Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination, and Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He has written seven collections of poetry, including The Singing Bowl, and Sounding the Seasons. Guite has a decisively simple, formalist style in poems, many of which are sonnets. He also performs as a singer and guitarist for the blues, rhythm and blues, and rock band “Mystery Train”. Guite earned degrees from University of Cambridge (BA, MA) and Durham University (PhD).
A Poet for ‘Bruised Evangelicals’ (Christianity Today)
Poem on Matthew 12: What If
"Releasing Grace and Beauty in the Most Unlikely Places" (59:25)
Malcolm at Westmont (2:36)
The Psalms (Wheaton) (1:09:36)
Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year
The Singing Bowl