Their tiny church is on the cover of JD Vance's new book. They don't know him.
The modest church on the cover of Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir unpacking his Catholic faith has a tiny but loyal congregation.
What it doesn’t have, members said: any connection to Vance or Catholicism
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There are a couple dozen regulars at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in rural southwestern Virginia, according to one, 78-year-old Marshall Funk, who attended his first service there in his mother’s womb. As they gathered Thursday evening for a potluck at the brick building with a white steeple — a classic Methodist style — Funk heard not a peep about politics. As far as he knew, nobody was aware that the White House’s second-in-command had broadcast an image of what Funk called his “second home.”
Vance, to his knowledge, had never visited.
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1) He did not choose the cover picture.
2) He did not write the book.
And bear in mind JD Vance can write.
His Hillbilly Elegy got good reviews on NPR back before he went over to the dark side.
But this is the sort of book that traditionally gets ghost written by a flunky.
Open questions:
1) Ghost written by a flunky or is it AI?
2) Did he read the book or even look at the cover? 
