The most interesting parts of his story involve his earlier years, as a teenager, when he studied and became a licensed Evangelical minister and started his own church, as he had already brought his family and others around him into Baptist living. A long and thought-out crisis of faith led him to leave all religion behind around the same time that he was in the process of searching for, and meeting his biological parents.  His New York Times puzzle-worthy family tree has led him now to have an adopted brother in his 60's, and an infant half-brother about to celebrate his first birthday.