Birth Narrative

The birth of my blog....David Malloy is the midwife, since I only have experienced about 3 blogs in my rather sheltered exisitance. Actually, Joe Tiedemann shares some responsibility as well, since he directed me to http://www.joetiedemann.com/ and was blown away. So, with a little help from my friends, I will embark on this endeavor, which I imagine will be rather addictive...to my family, if you thought you didn't see much of me before...

So why? Why enter this new world? Well, my Bishop thought it would be a good way to communicate better with the world, and that would be reason enough. Closer to my heart, though, is the temptation that is often before us to see only what's wrong in the church -- what is sick, what's dying. And there are lots of signs of life if you just care to look...