I think my friend Jake was probably right: “In the end, our stories is all we is.” This is my story continuing, filled with lessons I’ve learned, truth I hold as precious, and the faith I have sometimes struggled to keep. The Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan served as the 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, and is now retired. He was ordained a priest in 1982 and a bishop in 2008. Kee grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi; his wife, Tina, grew up in Leland in the Mississippi Delta. They now live in Birmingham, Alabama, and have two adult children, McKee and Mary Nell. He is the author of two previous novels, Jabbok and Beulah .