The Deacon's Woman and Other Portraits

First Suburban Church dominates a corner in a medium-sized suburb of a large city not far from where you live. Its seven-hundred-plus members come from all walks of life and represent various levels of devotion and commitment, from the pure and selfless to the struggling and the phony. Though any seeming portrayal of actually persons, living or dead or undecided, is purely coincidental, resemblance to people you know is strictly intentional...