One night during the midsummer toward the end of July, 1963, just several weeks before Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his «I Have a Dream» speech from the Lincoln Memorial and about four months before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, a young American high school graduate awoke from his slumber to see a waking vision of his girlfriend sitting at the foot of a cross cuddling a baby boy. Two weeks later he was astounded by a very unexpected vision of an enthralling, beautiful,...