A weary Episcopal priest loads up an aging Ford Bronco and slips out of town with nowhere particular to go and a quiet young man riding in the back seat he can't quite explain. A chance encounter at a roadside diner in rural Arkansas puts an unexpected woman in his path, one who's been waiting her whole life for something she couldn't have named. And on a cabin porch somewhere in the West, two unhurried figures are rocking slowly, sharing a bottle of wine, expecting company.
What if the life you ran away from was exactly what was preparing you for what comes next? And what if the road west was never really yours to choose?
The Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan served as a priest in the Episcopal Church in Mississippi and Alabama for twenty-seven years before being elected a bishop in 2008, serving as the 11th Bishop of Alabama until he retired at the end of 2020. He and his wife, Tina, live in Birmingham, Alabama, and have two children, McKee and Mary Nell, who died in 2023. He is the author of four other books: the Jabbok trilogy, Faithful Heretic, and God, the Devil & Lemon Icebox Pie.
A weary Episcopal priest loads up an aging Ford Bronco and slips out of town with nowhere particular to go and a quiet young man riding in the back seat he can't quite explain. A chance encounter at a roadside diner in rural Arkansas puts an unexpected woman in his path, one who's been waiting her whole life for something she couldn't have named. And on a cabin porch somewhere in the West, two unhurried figures are rocking slowly, sharing a bottle of wine, expecting company.
What if the life you ran away from was exactly what was preparing you for what comes next? And what if the road west was never really yours to choose?
The Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan served as a priest in the Episcopal Church in Mississippi and Alabama for twenty-seven years before being elected a bishop in 2008, serving as the 11th Bishop of Alabama until he retired at the end of 2020. He and his wife, Tina, live in Birmingham, Alabama, and have two children, McKee and Mary Nell, who died in 2023. He is the author of four other books: the Jabbok trilogy, Faithful Heretic, and God, the Devil & Lemon Icebox Pie.
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