I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 13, 1951 (do the arithmetic) to Charles Donald Kuehn and Louise Rita (Dillingham) Kuehn. After my first birthday we moved to Hawthorne, CA (Los Angeles County). When I attended Hawthorne Elementary, I (and everyone else) was unaware that the Wilson brothers (higher grade level than me) were destined for greatness as the Beach Boys.
When I was 9, we moved back to Salt Lake and eventually to Hunter, UT ( a Salt Lake suburb). I attended Whittier Elementary in Hunter. I later attended Brockbank Junior High School and Cyprus High School in Magna, UT, graduating in 1969.
My parents divorced in 1960. Dad married several more times before settling down with his (now) widow, Arlene. Mom married two more times and she is now a widow.
I attended college at the University of Arizona (freshman year) then transfered to the University of Utah. At the Campus Christian Center, I met Suzanne Richardson. We dated and later married on October 7, 1972. We both dropped out of college by then.
We moved to Ogden, UT in 1973. In 1974, we moved to Ely, NV. There I managed a computer service bureau. In 1977, we moved back to Utah and lived in Bennion, UT. I worked for Balkamp as a Data Processing Manager, then for NL Industries as a programmer/analyst. The NL division was bought by AMAX. For AMAX, I became a systems programmer.
Stephen was born in Ely in 1975. After he was nine months old, one of the local doctors noticed that his development was not right for his age. After seeing a pediatrician and later a pediatric-neurologist in Salt Lake, it was determined that he was profoundly retarded. It was recommended to us that he be placed in home for special care. In 1977, he was placed in Tiny Tots in Orem, UT. Stephen later outgrew Tiny Tots and moved to several places, ending up at the West Jordan Care Center.
Brian was born in Salt Lake in 1978. Though he had "floppy baby" syndrome, he was tested and found to be developing normally. It was recommended that we have no more children.
In 1980, American Express hired me as a systems programmer and moved us to New York until the Travelers Cheque Division relocated from New York City to Salt Lake, a year later. We lived in Wayne, NJ and I commuted to lower Manhatten (55 Water St). A few years later, I became a Data Base Administrator for American Express.
In 1984, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church selected me for ordination. This was to be a very selective ordination as a priest to this congregation, only. On December 26, 1985, I was ordained to the transitional diaconate and on September 19, 1986 (being the feast of Theodore of Tarsus) I was ordained a priest. I continued to work for American Express. I went back to school at Westminster College and graduated with a degree in Economics in 1986.
Believing to be called to the wider church, I quit my job and we moved to Berkeley, CA and seminary at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 1990. I graduated with a Master of Divinity degree in 1993 and we moved to serve two churches in Gridley and Willows, CA. In 1997, two more churches (Oroville and Colusa) were added.
In 1999, I accepted a call to be rector of Church of Our Saviour in Placerville, CA http://www.oursaviourpv.org.
The year 2001 was a very bad year, emotionally. Our oldest son, Stephen, died on March 5, my stepfather committed suicide in May, and then there was 9/11. When I commuted to New York City, it was through the World Trade Center. Dad died on April 28, 2002. He is interred at Valley View Memorial Park in West Valley City.
In 2006, I formed the non-profit, El Dorado Healthy Marriages Coalition, www.edhealthymarriages.org.
At the end of 2007, I began a radio show Mondays at noon. Healthy Marriages and Families is heard on KFOK - LPFM, streaming at http://www.kfok.org. My last show, for now, was January 4, 2010.