Ezra Klein and State Representative James Talarico of Texas discuss his faith, his politics and his Senate race.

God is the one and only Judge, not us. It’s His job alone to commend and to condemn. The Bible repeatedly makes this clear.

But that scope — and its further extension in the prequel series House of the Dragon, which jumps back about 200 years in the Game of Thrones timeline — could also be exhausting. The sheer scale of ...