Paul Harvey

Life in the Jamestown colony, pious as colonists were, was more hell than heaven.

Last fall, Wall Street Journal editorialists such as Peggy Noonan and Karl Rove were full of confident predictions about the election. Rove had his polls, Noonan her “vibrations,” each telling them of the near surety of a Romney victory.

Portrayals of the bible like this latest miniseries don’t just materialize out of thin air.