{"id":1099,"date":"2026-04-01T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/1099\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:24:07","slug":"jd-vance-has-a-new-book-about-his-religious-faith-communion-coming-out-later-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/1099\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith, ‘Communion’, coming out later this spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vice President JD Vance\u00a0has a new book coming out that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult.<\/p>\n

Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith comes out on 16th June, the HarperCollins Publishers imprint Harper told The Associated Press on Tuesday. HarperCollins also released Hillbilly Elegy,\u00a0the million-selling memoir from 2016 that helped make Vance a national figure.<\/p>\n

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Vice President JD Vance speaks on 18th March, 2026, in Auburn Hills, Michigan, US. PICTURE: AP Photo\/Paul Sancya\/File photo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story of how I regained my faith, of course, only happened because I had lost it to begin with,\u201d Vance, 41, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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This book cover image released by HarperCollins shows \u2018Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith\u2019 by JD Vance. PICTURE: HarperCollins via AP.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe interesting question that hangs over this book, and over my mind, is why I ever strayed from the path. Why the Christian faith of my youth failed to properly take root,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

The announcement Tuesday is likely to ramp up\u00a0speculation that Vance will seek the presidency in 2028 \u2013 a possibility the Republican vice president has said he\u2019s not focused on right now, indicating he\u2019d wait until after the 2026 midterm elections to decide on a campaign.<\/p>\n

Presidential hopefuls often, though not always, release books before launching a campaign, giving them a moment in the spotlight before new audiences and a chance to crystallise their message embarking on a campaign. Already, potential 2028 candidates on the Democratic side have published books or are planning to roll them out this year, including Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, California Governor Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

Vance wrote the 304-page Communion himself, according to his publisher, working on it off and on since 2019, and it will include material on his time in politics. Vice presidents from Walter Mondale to Mike Pence have published books, but Vance would be the first in recent memory to do so while in office.<\/p>\n

In 2022, HarperCollins told the AP that Vance had\u00a0set aside<\/a>\u00a0a planned religious memoir. Some of \u201cCommunion\u201d is drawn from that project.<\/p>\n

Vance has said he evolved from Christianity to atheism to Catholicism. He converted in 2019 and credits his new faith with giving him a sense of purpose he didn\u2019t get through his education at Yale University or working in the financial industry.<\/p>\n

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Hillbilly Elegy, Vance\u2019s memoir about his rural roots, was widely read upon its publication and only grew in popularity after Republican Donald Trump\u2019s stunning presidential victory in 2016, when Democrats sought out the book as a way of understanding Trump\u2019s appeal. Ron Howard adapted \u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d into a 2020 movie starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams.<\/p>\n

Vance initially was a critic of Trump but became a close ally. He was elected to the Senate as a Republican from Ohio in 2022 and was chosen two years later by Trump as his running mate, becoming the youngest vice president since Richard Nixon served under President Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s.<\/p>\n

The news about Vance\u2019s book followed Monday\u2019s announcement by his wife,\u00a0Usha Vance, that she has started a podcast called Storytime with the Second Lady\u00a0to promote reading among children.<\/p>\n

The Vances have three young children, and Usha Vance is pregnant with their fourth, a boy due in late July.<\/p>\n

\u2013 With MICHELLE L PRICE and DARLENE SUPERVILLE in Washington DC, US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United StatesAP Vice President JD Vance\u00a0has a new book coming out that will explore his religious faith and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[119],"tags":[1121,1647,1648,1122,169,168,1649,1650,170],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jd-vance","tag-communion-finding-my-way-back-to-faith","tag-harper","tag-harpercollins","tag-hillbilly-elegy","tag-james-david-vance","tag-jd-vance","tag-storytime-with-the-second-lady","tag-us-catholics","tag-usha-vance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116328259144752696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}