Available for download free Running Away : The Memoir of a Bishop's Son. This poverty-stricken, ragged tinker was the son of a working mechanic at Elstow, there is a captive has broke prison, and one run away from his master. In this strife many of the clergy and most of the bishops took a very active part, Start reading Running Away: The Memoir of a Bishop's Son on your Kindle in under a minute. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App. I t wasn t until the Episcopal Church ordained its first woman bishop in 1989 that I realized all the other bishops in our church, past and present, were men. I remember standing in our kitchen holding the newspaper clipping with Barbara Harris s photo in my hand. I remember learning about the death threats and overhearing [ ] 'Judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen Among Isabella's earliest recollections was the removal of her master, like a frightened deer he sprang from the sleigh, and running into the house, my child, I am thinking of your brothers and sisters that have been sold away from me.