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My name is John-Mark Gilhousen ("J-M" or "Padre" to friends and acquaintances). I haven't taken time to put much of significance here yet.
For now, by way of preliminary introduction, I'm a 55-year-old clergyman on extended medical leave (hence the surfeit of free time permitting me to peruse, edit and write a bit for Wikipedia), born and raised in a small Oregon (U.S.) city, to which I have recently returned after a long absence.
My professional background is 20+ years in inner-city mission work, with a few respites during which I taught Secondary English despite having resisted pressure to attain an advanced academic degree.
My interests and activities are ridiculously eclectic, so my contributions will be all over the Wiki map of subject matter.
In my contributions and edits, I will endeavor never to betray my several biases (I lean heavily leftward politically, but am theologically a traditionalist). I have great faith that members of the Wikipedia community will call me out on it when I fail to live up to that goal.
John-Mark+ -- Jgilhousen 23:17, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
