In 1978, someone gave me a copy of Frederick Buechner’s Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC. I read the first entry — "Agnostic: Some people all of the time and all people some of the time,” and we were off and running. By the time I finished “Zacchaeus: The unflagging lunacy of God. The unending steaminess of man. The story of Zacchaeus is...