"Bill Clinton’s surprising faith: From childhood through Monica Lewinsky, the real story of the president’s belief in God" Excerpted from "Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents" Bill Clinton’s father died in an automobile accident before he was born in 1946, and his mother Virginia Kelley remarried Roger Clinton in 1950. Bill regularly attended a preschool program at First Baptist Church in Hope, Arkansas, where he learned about Jesus. He also went to its Sunday school and summer Bible school program. His stepfather, who never completed high school, frequently got drunk and often beat his wife....