America Reads the Bible” kicks off in Washington, D.C., with its Opening Celebration and red carpet arrivals. The weeklong event marks 250 years of the Bible in America. Faith leaders, politicians and public figures will participate in continuous readings from Genesis to Revelation at the Museum of the Bible.

One day after he posted — then deleted — an image comparing himself to Jesus Christ, President Donald Trump sat at his desk in the Oval Office and read from the Bible directly to a camera.

We didn’t fully understand the experiment we were beginning, but this was the question driving our search, the point of curiosity that started our not-quite-scientific process. As women who were once girls growing up in the church, we had been around the ...