Tiny Methodist Church on JD Vance Book Cover Says They Don’t Know Him

JD Vance’s new memoir uses a photograph of a tiny Methodist church in Virginia on its cover. Members of that congregation say the building has no connection to Vance and they did not authorize its use. The book chronicles Vance’s conversion to Catholicism, so the choice of a Protestant church on the cover struck readers as odd. The mismatch matters because it can mislead readers, provoke viral controversy, and raises questions about using real places without consent.