Sundays in America

Not Suzanne Strempek Shea, who for a year traveled the country visiting the Protestant churches that had been verboten during her Catholic youth. Her goal, she writes in her introduction, was to glean a first-timer's first impression.

Her journey took her to well-known congregations including Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Some places are clearly a better fit for Shea than others.

Finally, in an interfaith chapel in the Denver International Airport, Shea recognizes "that we are always in God's house, wherever we find ourselves."