Worship: Gospel According to Claudia

Violins shimmer, kettledrums boom, and out of the phonograph throbs the prim soprano voice of TV Actress Marjorie (The Danny Thomas Show) Lord. She's playing Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate, a down-and-out Roman citizen who in better days was—yes, that's the one—the procurator of Judea. It's some time in the ist century. Claudia is dictating a letter to her friend Fulvia: "I am the wife of the man who condemned Christ Jesus to death. If even here children slink away from us, let me believe that somewhere, some woman will understand—even...