if we had somebody like jessica boskin to write about being a jewish cantor or polly murray wrote about being an episcopalian, certainly we were open to those discussions and traditional religious faith. what we wanted to emphasize more in this book was spirituality in terms of individual experience in how people make sense of the world, how they experience what you might think of as the wonders, the mystery, the magic of being alive, w you connect to other people in the rest of the world. so we didn't focus so much on what some people might call a system of belief i found it. she'll women were able to write about. one of the things we tried to talk about in this book is how pervasive religion is an especially smaller towns. the church is often the focus of what happens in town. high school football and church are the two big influences in small town. so maybe that's not a good fit for you. you might feel cut off from a major part of her cultural lives. so that's important. for a lot of people being part of the church is part of your culture. it is part of what happens where you live. t