“Studying the Torah at Hebrew day school,” writes Liana Finck, “I thought of it mostly as a portrait of one childlike (and therefore relatable) character full of feelings and desires: God.” Let There ...

Judith Wolfe slips a photograph of Timothy Schmalz’s 2013 sculpture Homeless Jesus into the end of the third chapter of her learned, slender new book. She doesn’t comment on the image per se—she ...