I have been in a foul mood the last few days.
Prickly, edgy, really really tired. If I went somewhere and just slept, I wonder how many days it would take me to feel like myself again.
I’m tired of washing those damn breastpump parts, every freakin’ day.
I’m ready for J to eat what we […]

Sweet Baby J on his seven-month birthday. We love your sparkle, SBJ!

Recently I took part in a roundtable discussion at the Alban Institute about secular and spiritual narrative. We were talking about technology as a means of telling one’s story and the conversation drifted to Facebook. A boomer-aged male said, “At least with blogs you do have some narrative element, but Facebook is for people who […]

If this doesn’t make you smile then you are dead inside and I pity you.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
If I were scheduled to preach on World Communion Sunday this year I would SO use this.

“Portrait of My Brother”
little she-who-is
marker on white board, 2008
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I’m in a writing workshop this week at Downtown Cathedral. There are three workshop leaders—I am in BBT’s group. (Those who care already know; those who don’t know, don’t care.)
We have each morning free to write, then there are afternoon group sessions, individual conferences with our […]

“Ambition is a morally neutral principle.”

Discuss.

A review for MotherTalk
The Pregnancy Journal by A. Christine Harris
I received this book in the mail a couple of weeks ago and set it aside: This won’t take long to review… a few thought-provoking paragraphs about pregnancy amid lots of empty space.
Yesterday I opened it. Oops. There’s tons of great info in this book.
This […]

So I read a lot about simplicity and “living lightly” on the earth. It’s a topic that has financial, environmental and spiritual implications. I’ve pondered in this space the gift and curse that is the iPhone–having the means to organize my life and respond to people and issues as they arise, yet finding it difficult […]

Del Martin (L) and Phyllis Lyon (R), partners for 55 years, exchange rings as they are married by San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom in a private ceremony at San Francisco City Hall June 16, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Martin and Lyon were among the first couples to be married in San Francisco as same-sex […]

So there’s been a lot of talk about sexism and racism in the presidential campaign. Some have said that Hillary Clinton was the subject of a lot of sexist media coverage. (A few of those people go on to say that they won’t vote for Barack Obama because of that sexism. On the part of […]

I had a doctor’s appointment today. Nothing wrong, just the regular checkup.
I had both the divine miss M and sweet baby J with me. This went fine, though it took us an hour to travel a distance that usually takes 20 minutes.
My face has been breaking out a bit lately. Past experience suggests the […]

Quoted in a letter to the editor in the latest Christian Century:
Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category… The opposite of radical is superficial; the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal.
…Beware of […]

A note to the nefarious:

You have been warned.

Our first box of Community-Supported Agriculture arrived today:
-strawberries
-a basil plant
-spring onions
-asparagus
-kale (you knew there had to be kale)
Exciting!
(Photo is from a CSA website)

I’ve been feeling like Bilbo: “stretched… like butter, scraped over too much bread.”
The upside of having a bullet-proof organizational system is that you can always, always, find a way to maximize any available moment.
Wait, that’s the downside.
So, I’m going to pray more. This has already produced interesting results.
I’m also going to goof off more. Just […]

The series I’m working on for Denominational Magazine will explore spiritual/Christian themes in various works of children’s literature. Here is a draft list with blurbs for each…
September 2008: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
Our series begins with the second installment in the classic Chronicles of Narnia, in which the Pevensie children return to Narnia and take […]

A little of everything:

Sen. Obama, I’d be glad to be your pastor. My preaching is edgy only to the extent that the gospel is edgy. I don’t preach partisan, so, call me…
We had a great time on vacation, visiting family, getting folks graduated and so on. It was not so much restful (a la napping […]