Review: J.D. Vance's "Communion" Memoir Shows a Strange Disdain for the Faith He Embraced
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Jessica Winter
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A review of J.D. Vance's second memoir "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith," which recounts his journey from Baptist/Pentecostal childhood through atheism to Catholic conversion. The review notes that the book is paradoxically disdainful of the faith Vance has joined, rendering his religious reckoning in impassive and indifferent terms. The author, Jessica Winter, examines how Vance's conversion narrative lacks the expected zeal and instead reflects a strange contempt for Catholicism.
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· 3 pulledI didn't meet Jesus on my way to Damascus
The Vice-President's book does not stage an Agony in the Rose Garden
Communion tells the story of Vance's decision to become Catholic, but it's strangely disdainful of the faith he has joined
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