I’m afraid there’s no way to write this column without sounding like a nerd of the first order. But let’s face it. I am, alas, a nerd of the first order. Specifically, I’m a Bible nerd. If possible, ...

A Writer With a Divine Touch Captures Life in a Christian Commune “Ruth,” by Kate Riley, is an absorbing novel about a woman torn between curiosity and purity. Fiction “Ruth,” by Kate Riley, is an ...