Hide and Seek with Providence

To say I had a religious upbringing is an understatement. Between the age of six and seventeen my family migrated through American Christianity, beginning as Episcopalians, passing through Pentecostalist and evangelical phases, and finally ending up as Roman Catholics. It was in every way a more intense and immersive experience, not just a matter of more hours in the pew, than the vast majority of people in my social class or professional peer group.