JD Vance: How I Joined The Resistance April 2020
You can read the whole thing here
https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-i-joined-the-resistance
What is NOT here is J.D.'s experience attending his father's Pentecostal Church (one line: "My first real exposure to an institutional church would come later, through my father’s large pentecostal congregation in southwestern Ohio.")
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258347/13-things-to-know-about-jd-vance-s-catholic-journey
His father had given up drinking and became a serious Pentecostal, and he would take Vance to a large Pentecostal church in southeastern Ohio with his new wife and their children.
Vance drank it in. Among other things, he rejected evolution and embraced millennialism, including a belief that the world would end in 2007.
“I’m not sure if I liked the structure or if I just wanted to share in something that was important to him — both, I suppose — but I became a devoted convert,” Vance writes in his memoir.
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So his father seems like a decent man. Are Pentecostal Christians considered some sort of "fringe" Christians by other Reform Christians?
EDIT
Vance's grandmother also seems to have had a good head on her shoulders...
I often wonder what my grandmother—Mamaw, as I called her—would have thought about her grandson becoming Catholic. We used to argue about religion constantly. She was a woman of deep, but completely de-institutionalized, faith. She loved Billy Graham and Donald Ison, a preacher from her home in southeastern Kentucky. But she loathed “organized religion.” She often wondered aloud how the simple message of sin, redemption, and grace had given way to the televangelists on our early 1990s Ohio TV screen. “These people are all crooks and perverts,” she told me. “All they want is money.” But she watched them anyway, and they were the closest she usually came to regular church service, at least in Ohio. Unless she was back home in Kentucky, she rarely attended church. And if she did, it was usually to satisfy my early adolescent quest for some attachment to Christianity besides the 700 Club.