Today, as the thermometer threatens to hit triple digits, Chicagoland residents (if not the beleagured farmers) are in hog heaven. If there’s one thing we love to do, it’s complain about the weather. Summer’s too hot and dry. Fall is too short. Winter’s too cold … or not cold enough. Spring is too cool or rainy. In January, a common lead story on the TV news is a “snow event.” In summer, it’s drought, tornado, or heatwave.
We forget that while the Chicago area has weather averages for temperature or rainfall, the weather as we experience it is usually moving from one extreme to another. Chicago has a lot of great things going for it. Weather is usually not one of them.
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
