Traveling the World Inspires ‘What Ifs’

'Slender Threads' shape us all

We in the West think of choosing religions almost completely as a personal choice — a decision one makes to believe or disbelieve. And yet, history and culture play an enormous, unseen role in individual choices. One’s religion is often determined by the accident of birth. If you’re born in Turkey or most of the Middle East, odds are you’re going to be …