John N. Keim tells the story of his long slide away from his Amish past with humor and sensitivity. He had the good fortune, or misfortune, depending on one’s point of view, of having a father who was a rebel. He spent a large part of Keim’s childhood trying to find that elusive mix of doctrine and church setting to fit his notions of what might be theologically best for his growing family. While this was serious business for his father, Keim, who had a rather large portion of his mother’s humor genes, made it all seem a bit less serious than it probably was. The slide away from his Amish heritage started, Keim says, very early on when he stood at the top of a long staircase…