Out of the Shadows
(Text: Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22) She impressed me the moment she walked into the room. I was in Chicago doing research on a book on the future of the mainline church. She was young, of Asian descent, and a first-year medical student. She had been raised in the northeast, attended the finest schools, been taught to appreciate the subtle beauty of classical dance and art, music and literature. On the prior Pentecost, she had experienced something that she had never even cons