The Church of the Open Road

The Church of the Open Road

As part of “Believing,” The New York Times asked several writers to explore a significant moment in their religious or spiritual lives. Sign up to receive the latest installments of “Believing” in your inbox. I was on the road to nowhere. On the map, I kept to the blue highways. At night, I slept in a tent. I thought of myself as an apprentice Kerouac. Gone, Ireland. Gone, the strictures of Catholicism. Twenty-one years old, the deepest faith I …