How quickly things change. At the outset of the war in Iran and in the aftermath of the U.S. military incursion into Venezuela, various pundits and partisans played a version of Where’s Waldo? involving Vice President JD Vance while observing that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was virtually ubiquitous. “Vance finally emerges from hiding,” read a Democratic press release back in March, zinging the veep for appearing at a high-dollar fundraiser (as if Democrats never have those).Now, if anything, the opposite is true of President Donald Trump’s top understudies. Vance is out front and center in the Trump administration’s efforts to wind down the war and negotiate a lasting peace deal. But that’s not the only reason the vice president is everywhere: Vance has also been promoting his new book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, a follow-up of sorts to his bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, this time focused on his religious journey and relationship with God.That path took Vance from a youthful evangelical Protestantism to an almost complete loss of religious faith and practice in early adulthood and then across the River Tiber to the Catholic Church.