"He taught us to save ourselves, more specifically," Kurt explains. "And to save each other. He took mortal flesh and was persecuted for his messages of peace, and died to pay for the sins of mankind," he explains, taking the book back, and flipping back to the first page, the Lord's Prayer on one page, Hail Mary on the opposite.

"Much of this," he says, of the book and rosary, "are the trappings of ritual, something I have come to find much comfort in, but are not necessary for worship. Here, they mostly remind me of home as much as they do of God."