JD, Usha Vance announce new media projects

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, both announced new media projects this week. The vice president will release a book outlining his conversion to Catholicism in June, and his wife just announced a new podcast called “Storytime with the Second Lady.”

Vance announced that “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” will be available June 16.

"I’ve been writing this book for a long time, and I’m honored to finally be able to share the full story with you all,” Vance wrote in a March 31 X post. “Communion is about my personal journey and how I found my way back to faith.”

According to AP News, Vance said in a statement that the 304-page memoir, published by HarperCollins, explores why he left his childhood faith of Christianity.

“The interesting question that hangs over this book, and over my mind, is why I ever strayed from the path,” Vance said. “Why the Christian faith of my youth failed to properly take root.” 

After living much of his adult life as an atheist, Vance entered the Catholic Church in 2019. AP News reports that the Vice President credits his faith with giving a purpose he could not find in his Yale education or his financial career.

The memoir is said to, in some ways, pick up where Vance’s bestselling first book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, left off. A 2020 film directed by Ron Howard brought Vance’s first memoir to the big screen.

The announcement about his new book came just a day after Usha released the first episode of her podcast, a series designed to promote childhood literacy.

Usha read Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit in the first episode. The podcast is available to stream on YouTube or Spotify.