Oh, the Weather Outside Is Frightful…

The first major storm of the winter looks to be making its way through St. Louis today and tonight, with freezing rain and potentially 4-10 inches of snow on top by tomorrow. Personally, I’ll take all of it and then some, as the recent rash of spring-like 70-degree temperatures is screwing up my work ethic. [...]

Megan Turns 33

Megan’s thirty-third birthday is today, and it comes after a doozy of a Thanksgiving “break,” as our youngest has been in the hospital here in Pittsfield, IL, since Thanksgiving night with pneumonia. We’re hoping to bring her home (to Grandma and Grandpa’s, that is) this afternoon/evening, and maybe even make it back to St. Louis [...]

Missing Time

I swear I am being abducted by aliens at least on a daily basis. How do I know this? I am periodically (and perpetually) missing time (usually about seven minutes a shot) in my day.
For those not aware of such abduction lore (yet another reason to watch The X-Files on DVD), the conspiracy goes that [...]

World Without Tears

Along with the rain, Lucinda Williams’s “World Without Tears” sums it up today:
If we lived in a world without tears
How would bruises find
The face to lie upon
How would scars find skin
To etch themselves into
How would broken find the bones
If we lived in a world without tears
How would heartbeats
Know when to stop
How would blood know
Which body [...]

Paging Reality

Overheard tonight at my two oldest daughters’ rehearsal for the St. Louis Children’s Choir:
A mother (on cell to husband): “Rather than come home to change, I think it would just be quicker to pick some clothes up at the mall.”
Same planet, different world.

Letter to My Mom

My mother, Charlotte, is on a Walk to Emmaus this weekend, “a spiritual renewal program intended to strengthen the local church through the development of Christian disciples and leaders.” The program is a ministry of the United Methodist Church (I grew up Methodist). At the end of the retreat, each person receives letters from family [...]

November Update from the Dunhams

I just posted our November update for friends, family, and supporters. We try to keep things brief, but for some thoughts on Thanksgiving (as well as our November calendar), do check it out. And, as always, be sure to check out our latest pictures at Flickr.
We hope to have our annual year-end appeal out and [...]

Humorous, Ludicrous

I’m usually not one for quizzes and the like, but this one seemed interesting enough. While I don’t know all that much about Anselm (yet), Calvin and Edwards are heroes, so it was nice to see them in the top three. I would have liked to have seen Augustine and Marty Luther round out the [...]

I Voted

Just got back from my local polling place early this morning and, while it seemed somewhat chaotic with plenty of people whining about standing in line for (gasp) a whole twenty minutes while others cast their votes, it was good.
Some observations:

There weren’t a lot of people from my age demographic voting; in fact, I was [...]

Grace (the Amazing Kind)

I feel somewhat compelled to offer a few thoughts on the goings-on involving Ted Haggard in Colorado Springs. Having lived in the Springs for twelve years and knowing quite a few folks involved at New Life Church, it’s a bit surreal to see the impact of the indiscretion(s) from here in St. Louis, as well [...]

One Night Under the Star

I wanted to post a link to the just-launched website for the One Night Under the Star Christmas Banquet I’m co-chairing on behalf of the seminary’s Student Council.
If you’re a Covenant student reading this, let me say that you’re not going to want to miss this jump back in time into one of the coolest [...]

Continuous Partial Attention

My friend, Will, passed along an article by New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman called “The Taxi Driver,” a piece that chronicled a cab ride he recently took in Paris.
Apparently, from the time the cab driver picked him up to the time he dropped him off, the cabbie was talking on his cell phone [...]