Read by Eileen Alexander

In a Barnes & Noble just before Easter, I watched a woman glance at a table of books and make a face like she’d just tasted something awful. Then she hurried on by as if she were afraid the books would bite. Curious, I looked to see what she had grimaced at: All the books on the table were about religion, primarily Christianity. They had titles like “Misquoting Jesus” and “What Jesus Really Meant.”