Faith changes everything.
In the early 1960s, his mother was an eighteen-year-old prostitute for an underworld figure in Cleveland, Ohio, when she became pregnant―a hazard of the trade. A back-alley abortion failed, and Ron came into this world as a neglected afterthought. He was abused by a babysitter, teased unmercifully by classmates for his constant stuttering, and neglected at home. At age ten, he put a loaded snub-nosed revolver to...