A prominent magazine recently featured a story about a Russian family whose dramatic escape from the Soviet Union attracted world-wide attention. It was not a pretty story. The family’s pentecostal beliefs first brought down hatefully-pronounced warnings from Communist party officials. Soon following, however, the family’s persistent prayer and Bible readings angered the authorities to the point that threats gave way to incidents of violence and persecution. Harassment, repeated interrogations, public ridicule, indecencies, and, ultimately, consignment to Siberia are now mercifully a part of the family’s past. These days they reside safely in one of our American cities. Unfortunately, fear is not easily dismissed. Not long ago, one of the young men in the family happened casually to glance…