“When Jesus said that a man should leave his father and mother, it wasn’t just about getting married and starting a new family,” Olson told me. “It was an instruction, I think, to challenge the things you’re taught in your upbringing—with the things you’re taught in your upbringing.” He ran both hands through his curly black hair. “That’s the hardest part of this,” Olson said. “These things we inherit, when it comes to faith and family, we don’t want to question them.” I could relate. And so, too, I told Olson, could many of the Christians I’d met in my journeys. Despite our different labels
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