On Easter, a book of Christian art keeps technology at bay

In our technology-infatuated era, we’ve become accustomed to the idea that whatever is smaller and faster must surely be better.

The slim, omnipotent iPhone is obviously superior to the primitive rotary dial mechanisms that people once used. The whisper-thin laptop looks like an almost comical repudiation of the great beeping, flashing, wall-size computers of the early jet age.