People often worship a miniaturized God. Centuries ago, in towns bordering the desert, where the sky is expansive and the nights inhabited by stories and secrets, prophets came to warn people. They denounced idols. They denounced prayers that imagined God—if we use a contemporary metaphor—like a bonsai tree. Idols or bonsai: things attractive precisely because they are placed in a fixed box, as though alive, although in fact it is